The article studies the gender aspects of early projects in the field of museological education. The subject of the study is a course of museum training, which was included in the program of the Wellesley College (USA) in 1911. Martilla Avery, a historian, majoring in medieval art, who was a curator he college museum, initiated the course. Based on published and unpublished sources from the Wellesley College Archives, the author analyzes the content of the course as contact area for negotiations on the status of women in the professional museum world of the first third of the 20th century.