Exhibitions

Current exhibitions

Spanish Civil War and Education

2026-02-02 - 2026-06-28

This exhibition brings together a selection of monographs showing how Franco’s regime indoctrinated society through education.

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION

The Eye of the Needle: Girls and Boys of the War

2025-10-03 - 2026-05-10

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…

EXPOSICION PERMANENTE

Permanent exhibition

2003-01-08 - 2035-01-01

The permanent exhibition of the museum operates around three mayor questions…

If we were asked, would you be able to name 10 people who dedicated and /or spend part of their life to the culture of peace, respect for human rights and the protection and care of our planet? What would be our response?…

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION

CAN ART STOP A BULLET? William Kelly’s big picture

2018-09-21 - 2019-07-08

‘A painting cannot stop a bullet but a painting can stop a bullet from being fired.’ William Kelly

BIBLIOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

Condor Legion

2018-04-14 - 2018-09-21

The support of the Condor Legion was decisive for the victory of General Franco in the Spanish Civil war. One of the objectives of this German military unit under the command of General Hugo Sperrle and whose Chief Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, was to experiment with new methods and strategies of combat on what was already called in 1936 ‘The next war’, the Second World War.

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION

Memories of stone and steel. Monuments to the victims of the Civil War and Francoism in the Basque Country

2017-12-15 - 2018-09-16

The recovery of the history and memory of republican victims of the Civil War has, in the last decade, become a key dynamic in the Basque Autonomous Community. There are many demonstrations of this recovery of memory, driven by several different political bodies, human rights organisations, associations and descendants of victims…

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION

Literature in the Spanish Civil War

2017-11-03 - 2018-04-08

he bibliographical exhibition Literature in the Spanish Civil War shows a selection of books that reflect the impact that the Spanish Civil War has had on international literature…

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION

Picasso’s Guernica

2017-05-03 - 2017-09-24

The Documentation Center on the Bombing of Gernika has opened, until next September 24, an exhibition of monographs on the ‘Guernica’ of Picasso.

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION

Ron English: Reimagining Guernica

2017-04-04 - 2017-12-10

“Guernica” for me is a modern template, just as the Madonna and Child is an ancient template. (…)There are many templates in art, shells upon which the artist forges a vision, contributing to a shared cultural experience. Art existed long before the concept of the New…

BIBLIOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

The Basque Government and the Spanish Civil War

2016-09-21 - 2017-04-16

This time the exhibition is a selection of books concerning the behaviour of the Basque Government during the Civil War since the Statute was passing and the Basque Government was created until the conquest of Biscay by Franco’s army in June 1937…

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION

Historical Memory: images of the aftermath of the Franco-dictatorship

2016-04-07 - 2016-09-18

During the Spanish Civil War and the following years under the dictatorship of Franco, many thousands of Spanish civilians were murdered because of their political or religious views…

BIBLIOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

Historical Memory

2016-04-07 - 2016-09-18

This time coincides with the 79th anniversary of the air bombardement of Gernika, for these reason, the museum presents a selection of books on Historical Memory…