Activities
Conference of the Ibero-American Network of Workers and Activists for Remembrance, Social Movements and Human Rights
2026-09-07
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2026-09-28
The mission pursued by the ‘Fundación Museo de la Paz, Gernika 1937’ is the management, maintenance, conservation and promotion of the Peace Museum, which will bring together, conserve and exhibit contents and documentation aimed at promoting and disseminating the history and memory of the bombing of Gernika-Lumo, the Civil War and the post-war period in the Basque Country. The educational activities of the Gernika Peace Museum offer a varied set of activities directed to a wide range of public: infantile, family, young and adult public, etc.
For educational centres
Educational resources, workshops and information for educators.
For families
Activities one Sunday a month for families, information of interest and much more.
For other audiences
Activities and resources for adults, leisure groups, etc.
Online learning
Digital resources to learn about Peace, Human Rights, the history of the Bombing of Gernika, the Gernika Peace Museum and much more.
Online learning
From the Gernika Peace Museum’s Education and Cultural Action Department (DEAC) we pursue the following objectives:
- Provide a positive experience at the Gernika Peace Museum.
- Bring visitors (schools, families, and other groups) closer to peace education, education in values, and the historic themes of the Museum (Spanish Civil War, the bombing of Gernika, exile and the history of Gernika-Lumo in general).
- Make visitors think, reflect, assess and act in relation to the two main museum themes (History and the Culture of Peace).
- Arouse reflections, feelings, sensations and knowledge.
- Educate people in the culture of peace and knowledge of history.
What’s new
Activities
Finalized
Summer camps (2025)
2025-09-01
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2025-09-05
The Education Department of the Gernika Peace Museum, together with the Community of Social Services of Busturialdea, has organised summer camps for children in September.
Activities
Finalized
Summer camps (2026)
2026-08-31
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2026-09-04
The Education Department of the Gernika Peace Museum, together with the Community of Social Services of Busturialdea, has organised summer camps for children in September.
Workshops
Peace Education
12 - 14 years oldThe concepts of peace, reconciliation and human rights are explored to understand how these issues relate to history and the present day, fostering a critical and sensitive understanding of our…
Scavenger hunt: Gernika, a place of remembrance
12 - 14 years old 16 - 18 years oldWander through the streets of Gernika on a journey back in time to understand what happened in 1937 and why remembering it remains so important today.
Gernika and the fake news
12 - 14 years old 16 - 18 years oldThe didactic workshop “Gernika and Fake News” is designed to touch on the thematic areas of ethics and history through a specific event such as the bombing of Gernika on…
Monuments: visual poems
12 - 14 years oldIf Franco’s victims became omnipresent until the end of the 1970s, the memory of the republican victims has followed the opposite path, passing from the depths of oblivion to which…
Art for the Memory
Primary educationTransform weapons of war through art, in figures of peace.
Cooperative games
12 - 14 years old Primary educationThe objective of this type of game is to promote diverse values: cooperation, group play, not leaving anyone out, learning from each other, etc.
The bombing of Gernika
12 - 14 years oldThe visit covers this historical event that represented a milestone in both the Spanish Civil War and world history.
Picasso and “Guernica”
12 - 14 years oldIt offers the chance, from the historical and symbolic point of view, to understand the most famous work by Picasso.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Primary educationThe workshop concerns the effects and the consequences of the atomic bomb through the story of Sadako.
Individual visit
The Gernika Peace Museum can be visited individually. You can follow the tour at your own pace or sign up for one of the guided tours.
Group visit
If you want to visit the Gernika Peace Museum in a group, please contact us to make a reservation. Visits are free or guided.
Guided tours Memoritour Gernika
The Gernika Peace Museum can be visited individually. You can follow the tour at your own pace or sign up for one of the guided tours.
Child Protection Protocol
See our protocol for child protection based on international standards. This is in addition to our institution’s data protection policies.
Accessibility
We are working on a continuous improvement plan to ensure full access to the museum for everyone. In this section we will be updating the different advances in Accessibility. The museum’s accessibility information is updated in this document.
Duración aproximada de la visita: 1 h 30 min
Entradas
Foru plaza, 1
E48300 Gernika-Lumo
Bizkaia, Euskadi.
- Martes-Miércoles-Jueves-Viernes: 10:00 - 19:00h
- Sábado: 10:00 - 19:00h
- Lunes-Domingo: 10:00 - 14:30h