Women have helped shape the Victoria we know today, yet many of their stories remain overlooked. Her Place Women’s Museum provides the expertise, services and resources to help individuals, families, educators, councils and developers recognise and honour women’s contributions.

Finding Her Resource Hub

Public commemoration is more than a cultural gesture—it shapes collective memory, reflects community values and influences who is recognised in our shared public spaces. The Finding Her resource suite brings together ten complementary documents designed to support councils, developers, community organisations and individuals through every stage of commemorative place naming and women’s recognition.

Finding Her at Her Place Resource Suite – Introductory Guide

Created for communities, councils, developers, researchers and advocates.
Read this Guide before moving on to the other documents in the suite.

Finding Her Place — Guide to Commemoration

Created for Individuals, families, community groups.
This document introduces all forms of public commemoration, explains eligibility criteria, and guides readers through five steps to building a strong nomination.

Intersections in Place — Guideline
Intersections in Place Checklist

Created for councils, developers, and naming authorities.
These documents serve as guidelines for intersectional, gender-inclusive place naming. They outline the six principles, community-specific guidance and implementation strategies and are supported by a practical working checklist for applying the Intersections in Place Guideline at each stage of a naming project, from governance to monitoring.

Cultural Protocols Framework

Created for councils, developers, researchers, families.
This framework provides guidance on ethical engagement with First Nations communities, families and cultural custodians throughout any commemoration project. It covers permission, consent, cultural safety and dispute resolution.

Biography Research Guide

Created for researchers, volunteers, and contributors.
This is a companion guide to the Biography Data Collection Form and working in tandem with the Biography Template. It explains how to approach research, handle permissions, address bias and write with care.

Biography Data Collection Template

Created for researchers, families, community contributors.
This is a structured form for documenting a woman’s life, achievements, learning and legacy in preparation for any commemoration purpose.

Finding Her Nomination Submission Form

Created for anyone who is nominating an existing site — a road, mural, plaque or park — for inclusion on the Finding Her digital map.

GNV Submission Readiness Checklist

Created for Councils, developers, naming authorities
This checklist provides guidance for creating a geographic naming proposal for lodgement with Geographic Names Victoria (GNV) via the Vicmap Editing Service.

Family Invitation Letter Template

Created for Councils and developers.
A template for approaching families on behalf of an organisation where privacy laws prevent Her Place from making direct contact. Customisable for any site.

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Finding Her Services

Her Place Women’s Museum provides specialist support for anyone seeking to commemorate a Victorian woman—whether you’re an individual, family, community group, organisation or council. Finding Her brings together expertise in Australian women’s history, gender equity and public commemoration with practical, on-the-ground project support.

In-depth biographical research, fact-checking, source verification, and intersectional historical analysis.
We can help find records for women whose stories are underrepresented in mainstream archives.

Expert support in writing, reviewing and finalising biographies suitable for Finding Her map publication, formal GNV submissions, and other public commemoration projects.

Assistance with preparing a Name Bank for commemorative consideration. Name Banks can range in size and complexity.

Guidance and templates for approaching and involving families, including our invitation letter template for use by councils and developers where privacy laws prevent direct contact.

Practical advice on completing nomination forms, preparing evidence packages, and working with naming authorities, councils and other bodies.

Projects supported by Her Place Women’s Museum may be featured on the Finding Her digital map or in exhibitions at Abbotsford Convent, amplifying women’s stories across Victoria.

Her Place Women’s Museum maintains a growing digital archive of women’s histories. Contributing a woman’s story to the archive ensures it is preserved and accessible for future generations.

Gender-based and intersectional place naming, exhibitions and commemoration workshops for councils, developers and community organisations. Includes preparation, delivery and follow-up materials.

Professionally curated exhibitions at Her Place Women’s Museum at Abbotsford Convent or at metro and regional venues. Developed in consultation with clients and communities to bring women’s stories to life.

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Education Resources

Her Place Women’s Museum develops engaging, curriculum-linked education programs and free classroom resources to accompany our exhibitions. Designed for primary and secondary students and teachers, they help bring women’s stories to life and provide meaningful classroom context.

The future is always unknown, but the broad range of work being done in STEM helps us to prepare for it. One thing we do know is that diversity within STEM is important and, with women making up half the population, the involvement of more women in STEM leads to new voices, ideas and solutions.

As our world changes so rapidly, we can’t know what the jobs of the future look like. What the women in this exhibition demonstrate is that STEM has equipped them to take on the unknown. As creative, big picture problem-solvers, they are making a difference in the world and thinking ahead to what is possible

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