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…

Essential books on the bombing of Gernika

The bibliographic exhibition is made up of a selection of books on the bombing of Gernika belonging to different authors who have wanted to write the history of what happened…

Woman and the Spanish Civil War

When the war broke out in July 1936, women’s life is profoundly transformed and even though the hard living conditions they played a political, social and military roles. So, they organized to grip arms, to work in weapon factories or become a war correspondents, contributing to the war effort…

Basque Children’s Exile

During the Spanish Civil War, thousands of Basque children fled abroad, leaving their families. Many of them returned at the end of the war but many others suffered decades of exile…

Picasso’s Guernica

The Documentation Centre on the Bombing of Gernika has opened an exhibition of monographs on Picasso’s Guernica to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the painter’s death.

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…