Photo: Kirsten van Santen

Atria collects, preserves and documents material on the position of women in all fields – such as law, politics, labour, care, history, art, literature, science, religion, sexuality, gender equality and feminism, past and present, from the Netherlands and abroad. 

One of the oldest collections 

In 1935, Rosa Manus, Johanna Naber and Willemijn Posthumus-van der Groot founded the International Archive for the Women Movement (IAV). They did so to collect and preserve the heritage of women, and to stimulate academic research on the position of women. 

Size of the collection

• 1553 meters of archives and egodocuments  
• 186 magazine subscriptions  
• 8000 magazines 
• 8867 biographical scrapbooks  
• 110.000 books, rapports and theses 
• 394 Oral History interviews 
• 41.600 image and audio items and 2100 objects