Permanent exhibition room renovated
The Gernika Peace Museum has renovated a room of its permanent exhibition that will be open from April 26, 2019. The content of the new room is:
The bombing narrated by the people who lived it
The witnesses of the bombing of Gernika tell us what happened to them by audio-visual material. This exhibition shows testimonies collected at different historical moments, those compiled by William Smallwood Egurtxiki in the 70s and those compiled in 2018 by Gogora, the Institute for Remembrance, Coexistence and Human Rights of the Basque Government. Testimonies collected at different times: those compiled by William Smallwood ‘Egurtxiki’ in the 1970s and those compiled in 2018 by Gogora, the Basque Government’s Institute of Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights, are on display in this exhibition.
You will have the possibility to enter the museum for free from April 26 to 28.
- Video of the Gogora Institute on the opening day: “Bizitako bonbaketa. Inauguración”
- In this audiovisual piece, Gogora brings together some of the testimonies that William L. Smallwood ‘Egurtxiki’ collected in more than sixty interviews he conducted in Gernika during the spring of 1972 among the survivors of the bombing and which he later compiled in the book ‘The day Gernika was bombed’: ‘Bizitako bonbaketa. El bombardeo de Gernika contado por las personas que lo vivieron’
- News of Oizmendi Telebista: BIZITAKO BONBAKETA IKUS-ENTZUNEZKOA INAUGURATU DA BAKEAREN MUSEOAN
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