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
Flying prohibited: Children and armed conflicts
This exhibition brings together 36 images by 16 renowned photojournalists to show seven aspects of the impact of armed conflict on the world’s children….
Kids’ Guernica: AN INTERNATIONAL ART PROJECT FOR PEACE
In order to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Gernika, the Gernika Peace Museum, the Peace Research Center Gernika Gogoratuz and the Culture House of Gernika, have organized with the sponsorship of the City Council of Gernika-Lumo and the Foundation 2012 Fundazioa, the International Art Project for Peace, ‘Kids’ Guernica’…
LEGIONNAIRES: Mussolini’s Italians in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1937)
LEGIONNAIRES: Mussolini’s Italians in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1937)
War and Peace: A personal point of view
This temporary exhibition organized by the 2012 Foundation comprises a number of valuable works by thirty-three renowned photo-journalists from fifteen countries, and its sole premise is absolute freedom…
The Maternity Hospital at Elna. Cradles in exile.
This temporary exhibition, produced by the Memorial Democràtic of Catalunya, tells us the story and work of Elisabeth Eidenbenz, a Swiss schoolteacher, that between 1939 and 1944, saved the lives of 597 infants…
Unspoken Map References. Sites of Francoist Repression.
In her exhibition Ms Ortega presents to us a past that is still present, a memory that refuses to fade, painful absences that have left indelible marks not only in memory but also on the scenarios of the events…
DIA-TEKHNÉ: Dialogue through Art
From black-and-white pictures of conflicts to a full palette of colours. From Picasso’s Guernica and the artist’s denunciation of war…
Guatemala: So That All Shall Know
The exhibition So That All Shall Know recaps twenty years of work of Guatemalan photographer Daniel Hernández-Salazar. It synthesizes the three foundations on which Hernández-Salazar bases most of his artistic creation…
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In August 1945, two atomic bombs completely devastated the cities of Hiroshima…
S.T.O.P. Surviving in the Palestinian Occupied Territories
This is a temporary photographic exhibition organised by Médecins du Monde in collaboration with the Peace Museum Gernika, which aims to raise awareness and inform the public about the situation in which the population lives in the occupied Palestinian territories….
The Promised Route
The Promised Route is an itinerant exhibition organized by CEPAIM.
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…