Maritime Women
A new exhibition at the Maritime Museum Rotterdam, starting in october 2025, will tell the stories of maritime women that have largely remained untold until now.
Curator Irene Jacobs conducted extensive research into this group. ‘The assumption is that women were not really there and could not, would not or did not do things. But that image is not correct.’
Research on Maritime Women
The research that was done by curator Irene Jacobs, was carried out with financial support from the NWO focused on maritime women who can be found in the museum collection. Women who were active in the maritime world, such as seafaring, inland shipping, fishing or shipbuilding.
View the results of the research (Dutch)-
Catharina Maria van der Corput (1921-2012)
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Maria Wilhelmina Johanna Soulier (1929-2001)
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Heinerika Hidderina Zeijlstra (1861-1893)
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Cornelia Schmid (1843-1902)
