The Pop-up Leitrim Women's Museum

Our Pop-up Women's Museum Project recently came to an end, and we were really delighted to have the Museum and our wider "Leitrim Women Through Time" project feature on RTE Radio 1's CountryWide programme this month! We're very grateful to Ella McSweeney for featuring our story - you can hear our interview with myself (Project Curator) and two of our wonderful local project contributors at the link below.

The Pop-up Leitrim Women’s Museum travelled to four temporary venues across the county in May and June, and included the display of the “Leitrim Women Through Time 1850 – 1950” travelling museum exhibition, created for the first phase of the LWTT project from recorded community stories. This was accompanied by a display of objects from rural women’s history, with examples of items from women’s work inside and outside the home, women’s craft, and women’s personal lives; all which tell stories of women’s lives in the near and distant past. These included a wide variety of objects from rural women’s lives including a spinning wheel, an antique Singer sewing machine, a butter churn, a washboard, Clones lace, Irish linen and knitting, and vintage household books and women’s magazines.

We're grateful to The Heritage Council and Creative Ireland for their support of our work - events for Phase 2 of the "Leitrim Women Through Time" project will continue throughout the summer thanks to the 2023 Community Heritage Grant awarded by The Heritage Council. The Pop-up Women's Museum will also return one more time in August for Heritage Week!