The FrauenMediaTurm (WomenMediaTower) is a nonprofit organization which was founded as "The Feminist Archives and Documentation Center" in 1984. 

Since 1994 the FrauenMediaTurm has been situated in Cologne's famous Bayentower. This ancient tower is Germany's strongest fortified tower and has been the landmark of Cologne for almost seven centuries.

Today the FrauenMediaTurm holds the most comprehensive and technically best equipped scientific archives on women's issues in German-speaking countries. The FrauenMediaTurm was initiated by Alice Schwarzer; Jan Philipp Reemtsma supplied the endowment fund. Its board of trustees consists of Alice Schwarzer (chair), Ursula Scheu (vice chair), and Barbara Schneider-Kempf. Since 2007 a digital visual archive has been supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

The FrauenMediaTurm belongs to an association of autonomous women's archives in the German speaking region (ida). In cases of specialised inquiries beyond our scope, the user is, of course, referred to the respective archives.

Since 2008 the FMT has been supported by the federal state government of North Rhine-Westphalia.