MemoriArtean IV: From Bilbao to Gernika. Paths of forgetting
Spanish Civil War and Education
This exhibition brings together a selection of monographs showing how Franco’s regime indoctrinated society through education.
Permanent exhibition
The permanent exhibition of the museum operates around three mayor questions…
Upcoming exhibitions
Fosil Guía: Arqueología de la Guerra Civil
Past exhibitions
In-security. The nuclear dilemma.
Not a day goes by without our hearing the word nuclear being associated with energy or defence.Partisans and critics affront each other, analysing the past and presenting future scenarios…
From Apartheid to Democracy: the Struggle for Liberation in South Africa
Apartheid was a deliberate policy to deprive black South Africans of their freedoms…
The Ringelblum Archives: the Hidden History of the Warsaw Ghetto
The exhibition The Ringelblum Archives: the Hidden History of the Warsaw Ghetto reconstructs a little known episode, but one which is of key importance to our understanding of the Shoà (Holocaust) and the events of the Nazi occupation of Poland…
Art and Human Rights
This is a temporary exhibition originally from South Africa and organized by the Art for Humanity which pretends to develop and promote the philosophy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights…
Signs For Peace
Fingerprints distinguish one human being from another. Fingerprints are the unadulterated, unique and irreproducible sign of our own identity…
”Picasso-Gernika 70th Anniversary”’
In 2007, to mark the seventieth anniversary of the tragic bombing of Gernika and the creation of Picasso’s Guernica….
Failing to make the grade: The Spanish Civil War in school text-books
After 70 years of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, how is that information transmitted? How is that important part of our history taught to our children in textbooks?…
The Road to Peace
Gernika and Pforzheim share a sad story. They share bombs and death, about destruction and sadness…
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In August 1945, two atomic bombs completely devastated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killed more than 200,000 people.
Argentina: Educate in remembrance to build the future
This exhibit presents some moments of the history of the education in Argentina since the XIX century…
Berta Von Suttner: A life for peace
Bertha von Suttner was the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize…
Mauthausen, The Graphic Chronicle
In 1996, The Mauthausen Survivors’ Associations and those groups representing survivors of other concentration camps in Spain deposited part of their historical collections in the Museu h’Història de Catalunya. Amongst said funds was a collection of negatives which came from the Nazi concentration camps of Mauthausen and Gusen (Austria)…