PERMANENT EXHIBITION

Permanent exhibition

2003-01-08 - 2035-01-01

Presentation

A wide selection of ideas, concepts, thoughts and points of view in relation to peace -particularly a contemporary idea- in which peace, to solve conflicts, flourishes in terms of relationships between human beings. The history of peace must not be the history of the end of conflict. The history of peace must not be the history of the end of conflict.

This first question is approached in the following rooms:

The paths towards peace

Agreed peace
Peace of mind
Blue planet, planet peace
Peace on a daily basis
Organising ourselves for one wish: peace
Action taken in the name of peace: a personal attitude

Peace in the 21st Century

Peace of life
Negative peace
The tools used bring peace

Useful links

What is peace? Visualise the room at 360°.

The paths towards peace. Visualise the room in 360°. .

Peace in the 21st Century. Visualise the room in 360°.

A reading of the history of Gernika-Lumo and the spanish Civil War, the air bombardment of Gernika, and the exemplary lesson about peace taught to us by the survivors of this tragic event through their reconciliation with their attackers.

This second question is approached in the following rooms:

26 april 1937: They were all like Begoña

An audiovisual and scenography that reproduces the dining room in a house in Gernika in 1937 (visualise the room in 360°)

The town talks to us (visualise the room in 360º)

Gernika-Lumo, a previous history
The first settlers
Foundation of Gernika
Statutes and unrest
The industrial boom
Modern times
Spain prior to the Civil War
Gernika in the 30’s
The Second Republic
Autonomy in Euskadi
The beginning of the conflict: the Spanish Civil War
The bombing of Gernika
Attacked from the air: Technical aspects
The destruction of the town
The occupation of Gernika
The experience of the air bombardement
Information after the bombing
Gernika in the post-war period: Franco’s regime and repression
Victims and responsability
Towards reconciliation

In memoriam (Audio-visual, Short Film Prize AVICOM) (visualise the room in 360º)

A creative and consistent audio-visual presentation invites us to reflect on tragedy, destruction, hope and also on life.

Picasso’s “Guernica”

Brief introduction to Picasso’s painting that refers to the bombing of Gernika.

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. 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, Institute for Remembrance, Coexistence and Human Rights of the Basque Government.

We take a look at the world through Picasso’s “Guernica” using human rights as prism to study the current state of peace in the world today.

This question is presented in the following rooms:

Three expressions