Tema: Civil War

Spanish Civil War and Education

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

Prisons and Francoism

During the Civil War and the subsequent Franco dictatorship, the prisons were filled with political prisoners and people considered enemies.

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…

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…

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…

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…

Women and Children in a Europe in War (1914-1949)

Through three thematic modules, this exhibition focuses on the childhoods in European wars, on the mobilization and humanitarian commitment of women, and on the long road of constructing memory from…

The Civil War in the press

This exhibition presents a selection of the books we have considered most relevant and which reflect the work of the press, both written and graphic, during the war and its…

Outbound Ticket

One ship, more than two thousand refugees. One story. Through personal narratives and by uncovering the memory of her refugee grandfather, a young man of 19 when he arrived in…