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
Young refugees: struggling out of exile
This exhibition organised by the Basque Committee of the UNHCR and the Gernika Peace Museum seeks to spotlight and denounce the terrible situation of the young refugees around the world…
The women of Gernika in the 20th century. Testimony and experiences
This research and exhibition sought to recover the testimonies and experiences of women from Gernika…
Wilhelm V. Humboldt and Euskal Herria
Exactly 200 years ago in April and May 1801, Wilhelm von Humboldt visited the Basque Country on a research trip that was to help unveil the mystery of the Basques…
Käthe Kollwitz: Engravings and Scultures.
Born in Königsberg in 1867 and brought up during the German Empire, Käthe Kollwitz was throughout her life, politically, socially and personally committed to freedom and justice…
GERNIKA!
In 1999 an old military aerodrome on the banks of the Cromarty Estuary, in the Scottish Highlands, was the scene for GERNIKA!, an exhibition without precedent…
Art towards reconciliation
International exhibition organised by the Gernika Museum, Gernika Gogoratuz and the Gernika Cultural Centre which looks at the relationship between art and constructing world peace and contribution can be made…
Never again! Images of war 1936-1939
Never again! Images of war 1936-1939 It’is a selection of the best images -over 100 of them- from the book of the same title published by the Sabino Arana Foundation, showing the violence wreaked in the Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939…
Sofía Gandarias: Gernika
The ‘Guernica‘ by Picasso has become the image that expresses twentieth century war barbarities. It has nowadays been established as the norm and prototype to depict horror…
Espetxean 1937-1942: Seed of Freedom
The exhibition Espetxean 1937-1942 is a tribute to the thousands of men and women who fought in defence of freedom, a reminder of circumstances that were hard, difficult, and nearly always tragic, those of the post-war period…
William Kelly: Gernika documents and prints from the peace project
The artist William Kelly (over five months and two visit to Gernika) created the large drawing Gernika Lekukotasuna-Guernica Document…
Photos of other Massacred cities following the bombardment of Gernika
This exhibition seeks to have the visitor reflect on the absurdity of the wars, acts of destruction, and massacres that, following the total destruction of Gernika (taken as a precedent for the total destruction of a civilian population), have been repeated and today continue to be repeated…
The Bombing of Gernika
This was the central and principal exhibition in the Gernika Museum (between 1998 and 2001, before the complete renewal of the permanent exhibition of the museum took place (2002).
The aim of this exhibition is to offer one a historical view of events on that date, 26 April 1937, when the symbolic and pacific town of Gernika was bombed and completely destroyed…
Duración aproximada de la visita: 1 h 30 min
Entradas
Foru plaza, 1
E48300 Gernika-Lumo
Bizkaia, Euskadi.
- Martes-Miércoles-Jueves-Viernes: 10:00 - 18:00h
- Sábado: 10:00 - 14:30h, 16:00 - 18:00h
- Domingo: 10:00 - 14:30h