Museum of Waldensian Women
During Women’s History Month 2025 we intend to take a look at how women perceived education as a means of improving life conditions and how they followed their thirst for knowledge at a time when everything seemed to make it impossible.
The Museum of Waldensian Women in the mountain Valleys of Italy has provided us the incentive to pursue women’s quest of education throughout history.
“The Waldensian Middle Ages, the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland, English Puritanism, the Huguenot resistance in France, the American suffragist movement, these seem to us more accessible when they are narrated through the lives of women who thought, wrote, and acted, even if history seems to have forgotten them.”[1]
Women’s history has long been neglected, but women have always made an impact on their world. “Women have aspired toward self-improvement as growth in their comprehension of the task assigned to them by God in this earth, understood as vocation. The Waldensian Women’s Museum has widened its research to include women of diverse eras and countries. Women who since the distant past have laid claim to space in order to make their own voices heard, the voices of historians, theologians, and preachers. Women who were also united by a passion for writing and for the Scriptures.”[2]
[1] Extract from brochure of the Museum of Waldensian Women.
[2] dto