For Women’s History Month, the New Haven Museum will host a traveling exhibit from the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford that features trailblazing Connecticut Jewish women who overcame obstacles of gender, social class, and religious identity to carve their own paths. “Trailblazer: Connecticut Jewish Women Making History” will be on view through Friday, March 31, during regular museum hours.

The exhibit consists of large panels telling the stories of 12 groundbreaking women who persevered despite untold challenges. Women’s rights activists, artists, journalists, and health and education reformers, they all overcame barriers to make changes that still impact lives today: Rebecca Affachiner; Anni Albers; Beatrice Fox Auerbach; Rabbi Jody Cohen; Annie Fisher; Miriam Karpilove; Ellen Ash Peters; Matilda Rabinowitz; Esther Rome; Betty Ross; Sophie Tucker, and Florence Wald.

At various times the women’s ideas were considered outlandish, controversial, even radical, but their grit and determination made them pioneers in their fields. Three of the women will be of particular interest to New Haveners: Albers, Peters, and Wald.

In conjunction with the exhibit, Elizabeth Rose, executive director of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford, will join with the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven (JHSGNH) and NHM to honor the exhibit’s three New Haven trailblazers and the life of former New Haven City Historian Judith Ann Schiff on Sunday, March 19, at 2 p.m. in the inaugural “Judith Schiff Women’s History Program.” In addition, the JHSGNH will exhibit photographs, publications, and objects related to Schiff in the Community Case in the NHM rotunda throughout the month of March.

For more information, visit www.newhavenmuseum.org or Facebook.com/NewHavenMuseum or call 203-562-4183.