# Vagina Museum to reopen after achieving fundraising target in 3 weeks - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/10/11/vagina-museum-to-reopen-after-achieving-fundraising-target-in-3-weeks/ - Published: 2023-10-11T10:43:54+01:00 - Author: Melanie May **The Vagina Museum will reopen to the public on 4 November at new premises in London’s Bethnal Green, after it raised £85,000 in three weeks.** The [Vagina Museum ](https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/)closed to the public in February this year when its property guardianship at its premises in Bethnal Green came to a sudden end. It then launched a major [crowdfunding appeal](https://www.gofundme.com/f/9um7y) to enable it to secure new premises. ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/) At the time, the Vagina Museum said: > “It’s a now-or-never situation: we need to raise £85,000 by the beginning of June > in order to pull this off. Otherwise, we’re not going to be able to survive beyond > a few months, and all activities will cease.” Within three weeks, the Museum had raised its target amount, with donations coming in from more than 2500 individuals. The crowdfunding campaign is still open with almost £91,500 raised in total to date. ![](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2023/10/231009-Vagina-Museum-Poyser-St- External-View.png) How the museum will look. Credit: Vagina Museum 2023 The Vagina Museum will reopen with a temporary exhibition, Endometriosis: Into the Unknown. The new premises at Poyser Street in Bethnal Green will have three galleries. The ground floor gallery will display temporary exhibitions, with Endometriosis: Into the Unknown being the first. Two upstairs galleries will display a permanent exhibition, and a community gallery displaying temporary exhibitions. The Museum also has an events space to host a programme of events such as talks, comedy, workshops and performances; and a cafe. In November, only the ground floor will open because lift access is not yet available for the upper floor. The Vagina Museum launched as a series of pop-up events in 2017. In 2019, it first opened its doors to the world at premises in Camden Market, before moving to Bethnal Green. * **[2023 saw record-breaking £550mn donated to UK charities through JustGiving](https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/01/03/2023-saw-record-breaking-550mn-donated-to-uk-charities-through-justgiving/)**( 3 January 2024) * **[Crowdfunding – a Web 2.0 twist on what community fundraisers have always done?](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/05/15/crowdfunding-web-20-twist-what-community-fundraisers-have-always-done/)**( 15 May 2009) * **[AngelShares launches new arts crowdfunding site](https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/11/17/angelshares-launches-new-arts-crowdfunding-site/)**( 17 November 2011)