September 6, 2002

Women's History Through Different Doors

By JULIA M. KLEIN

We are sitting in an empty auditorium as afternoon shades into evening, talking over the drumming of a Cambodian dance troupe performing in the hall just outside. "People's expectations of a women's museum seem to be completely, diabolically different from what they see when they get here," says Cathy Bonner, founder and president of the Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future, in Dallas. "I think quite often they think they're going to see dusty old dresses in glass cases."

There

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