Spanish Civil War and Education
This exhibition brings together a selection of monographs showing how Franco’s regime indoctrinated society through education.
The Eye of the Needle: Girls and Boys of the War
This exhibition aims to make visible the experience of the Basque children who were evacuated in 1937 during the war and the military coup of 1936. Through testimonies, photographs, documents…
Permanent exhibition
The permanent exhibition of the museum operates around three mayor questions…
Upcoming exhibitions
MemoriArtean IV: Sendas de la desmemoria
Fosil Guía: Arqueología de la Guerra Civil
Past exhibitions
Prisons and Francoism
During the Civil War and the subsequent Franco dictatorship, the prisons were filled with political prisoners and people considered enemies.
White flag. Futuro damnatio.
White flag. Futuro damnatio is a solo exhibition of the artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo who has focused his career on the work on memory, representation of power and its relation…
Childhoods in a world at war
This exhibition is the result of two years of team research work within the European Rememchild. On the one hand, it is the result of two years of research work…
The Exile of Children
The exhibition The Exile of Children is a bibliographic exhibition comprising a selection of books on children’s exile.
Spanish Civil War and heritage.
During the Civil War, the Republican government tried to protect and safeguard the heritage by moving it away from the places in conflict in order to avoid its looting or…
Burnt air
This exhibition, the third one organised by the Gernika Peace Museum in collaboration with the MHLI (Historical Memory in Iberian Literature) research group, features the sound installation Aire errea (Burned…
The forgotten dream of Gernika Berri
The exhibition “GURS: The frustrated dream of Gernika Berri” aims to raise awareness of what happened in the ” Camp d’Accueil” of Gurs after the end of the Spanish Civil…
Photography and Civil War
On this occasion, the Documentation Centre on the Bombing of Gernika presents a selection of books on photography and Civil War. The Civil War aroused great international interest and media…
Franco’s repression
On this occasion, the Documentation Centre on the Bombing of Gernika presents a selection of books on Franco’s repression.
The Bombing of Basque Literature
In recent years, censorship has been the subject of debate on an international level. Many thinkers have criticised the traditional focus of censorship as a measure against freedom of expression,…
Picasso’s Guernica
The Documentation Centre on the Bombing of Gernika has opened an exhibition of monographs on Picasso’s Guernica to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the painter’s death.
Picasso’s Guernica
The Documentation Centre on the Bombing of Gernika has opened an exhibition of monographs on Picasso’s Guernica to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the painter’s death.