Meryl Streep's next project: A national women's history museum

[Tx4obama]

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Women's place in history is a subject on Streep's mind of late. Her next off-screen project is the National Women's History Museum, an entity that exists so far only in cyberspace and that the actress is trying to get erected in brick and mortar on a site adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

“History until the 20th century was written by one member of the human family and it wasn’t the mother,” Streep said in a mid-December interview in New York City with her “Iron Lady” director, Phyllida Lloyd. “It was dad. That’s who wrote history and ... what was important? Movements of armies, sovereignty of nations, all sorts of things. But women were there all along and they have incredible stories that we don’t know anything about.”

Financing for the $400-million museum is being raised privately — Streep donated $1 million to the endeavor — but congressional approval is required for the location, which would place the building near institutions such as the National Air and Space Museum, the Museum of the American Indian and the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial. A bill to allow the museum has passed committees in the House and the Senate and is awaiting action by the full legislative bodies.

“It’s a political football, I gather,” Streep said. “It’s a thing that everybody in Congress agrees with but then they attach it to something that no one agrees with .... It would be a beacon to women all over the world, because there really is no such museum. There are cottage museums — there’s a quilt museum, there’s a cowgirl museum.”

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/12/meryl-streeps-next-project-a-national-womens-history-museum.html

National Women's History Museum: http://www.nwhm.org/

[MarianJack]

1. Meryl Streep is a great lady and, I'm happy to say...

...a THREE TIME Oscar winner!

PEACE!

[JNelson6563]

2. She's always about the sisterhood.

In pretty much every award acceptance speech I have seen her give (and I have not seen them all) she talks about the roles of and for women in the industry. She is one of the greatest boosters of our cause. I love her!

Julie

[felix_numinous]

3. Fantastic idea!

And so vital in this country where so many groups want to rewrite history and turn back the clock on women's rights.

[xmas74]

4. Wonderful!

We need it as a means to pass down our history not only to our daughters but also to our sons.

[tammywammy]

5. There was a wonderful Women's Museum in Dallas

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I say "was" because it closed back on Oct 31 forever. Such a lovely museum that was full of all kinds of interesting things.

[niyad]

7. the museum has closed? that is such sad news.

[tammywammy]

8. Yes, sadly it did last October.

It was a really great museum.

[niyad]

6. if meryl can help get this thing built--wonderful

[ellisonz]

9. On behalf of the DU American History Group Hosts...

...We endorse this idea entirely.