Women’s Work

The PEI Museum & Heritage Foundation (PEIMHF) presents the new exhibition, Women’s Work: Doing What Needs to be Done, on display at Eptek Art & Culture Centre in Summerside from July 2 until September 23.

Women’s Work is an interactive exhibition developed by Samantha Kelly, Curator of History for the The PEI Museum & Heritage Foundation. The exhibition utilizes many items from the Foundation’s historic object collection.

This engaging exhibition invites visitors of all ages on a journey to discover how women living on this land have been contributing their labour and skills since the earliest days of human settlement.

 But how is women’s work even defined? It can represent a broad range of essential contributions made over millennia. What activities do these words reflect?

The answer is that women’s work is everywhere. It is in the fields and on the docks and in the farmyards and shipyards. It is in the shops and businesses, and inside every home. Women’s labour can be both unpaid and paid; visible and invisible; skilled and unskilled; dismissed and celebrated.

Eptek is a site of the PEI Museum & Heritage Foundation. For more information, call 902-888-8373, visit peimuseum.ca, or follow @eptek.centre and 

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