Women in art
Rulers, saints, scholars and heroines
Women of courage and standing across cultures and centuries, in the best known paintings made of them.
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A museum on Momentable, with HER Venture HUB
HERMuseum
Women in art. Women making art. Women of art.
Jules Bastien-Lepage, Joan of Arc, 1879. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Where women are seen, and named.
Press play and the museum runs full screen, one work at a time, with the title and the artist on every picture.
Women making art
Painters, sculptors and printmakers
Work that museums kept in storage for centuries, now full screen and credited by name.
PlayYour work, here
Women of art
Living women artists
Show your work beside the women who came before you, with your name on every screen.
Enrol your artLaunching live, 19 to 22 November 2026
3 regions, joined by art.
The museum opens at World Art Dubai, Dubai World Trade Centre, with three regions side by side. Women artists are invited to enrol, and anyone can recommend an artist or a work.
North AmericaCanadaWomen of Canada and Europe
EuropePortugalWomen of Canada and Europe
The GulfThe EmiratesGulf Edition, and a call for women artists of the Emirates
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22NOV 2026
22NOV 2026
World Art Dubai
Thursday to Sunday, 1pm to 9pm daily
Dubai World Trade Centre, Za'abeel Halls 2 and 3
On stage and on The Frame
The launch is made possible by
Dubai World Trade CentreHost and SupportHER
Samsung Gulf ElectronicsSupportHER, The Frame displays
Galeria Filomena SoaresSponsHER, Portugal
Your name hereSponsHER or SupportHER
Stand beside the launch for its first month. Sponsors are named on the stage screen, in every post their support funds, and in the impact report.
Become a sponsor
we@herventurehub.com
The collections
Seven rooms. Press play in any of them.
Open a collection to browse it, or press play and let it run.
Women in Art
Rulers, saints, scholars and heroines across cultures and centuries.
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Women Painters: masters before 1900
Careers built when academies, guilds and salons were closed or half open to them.
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Women Painters: Modern
The turn of modern art, from the 1890s onward, in oil, pastel and watercolour.
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Women Sculptors
Bronze, marble and plaster, shaped by women who fought for studio space.
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Women of Print and Paper
Etchings, drawings and watercolours, where many women found room to work.
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Women of Canada and Europe
Landscapes, portraits and daily life, chosen for a Gulf audience.
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Gulf Edition
A family friendly selection of the strongest works, every one rated G.
PlayThe artists
103 women whose work you can watch tonight
Open one to read her life and see her work.
For artists
Exhibit your work in HER Museum
Living women artists show their work beside the women who came before them. It is free to apply, and you keep every right to your work.
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Apply. Tell us who you are and where you work, and show up to five works. One is enough to start.
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We read it ourselves. We write back within 7 days. Nothing of yours is shown before you say yes.
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Join the museum. Your works join a HER Museum collection, credited to you on every screen.
For art lovers
A museum you can carry
No ticket and no queue. Open it on whatever screen is near you.
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Look. Each work fills the screen with its title and its artist, one at a time.
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Explore. Open a collection, an artist or the guide to learn who these women were.
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Follow. Leave your email and hear when new collections and artists join.
Built with HER Venture HUB
The first room of CulturalHER.
HER Museum is the first initiative of CulturalHER, the arts programme of HER Venture HUB, a social enterprise for women in entrepreneurship, leadership and the workforce. HER Venture HUB leads the concept and the curation. Momentable brings the museum: the collection, the player and the screens.
For women artists
A museum that shows your work beside the women who came before you, with your name on every screen.
For audiences
A free museum that plays anywhere, telling the story of women in art across five centuries.
For partners
A ready programme for screens at events, in lobbies and in public spaces, curated and credited.
Know an artist who belongs here?
Recommend a woman artist or a single work for the museum.
