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?…
Failing to make the grade: The Spanish Civil War in school text-books
Tema: Memory
Permanent exhibition room renovated
The Gernika Peace Museum has renovated a room of its permanent exhibition
TRANSIT Gernika
What was Gernika like before the bombing? How did it change after its reconstruction? What are the memories and experiences of the people who lived or have lived there at different times?…
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…
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…
The Postwar Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage: ‘Devastated Regions’ in Gernika
In the aftermath of war cultural heritage is often turned to as a guiding element in the reconstruction process. There are two key dynamics that motivate this interest. One is the desire to repair, restore, and recover what has been lost through the destruction…
Talks, workshops in connection with memory, symbolics, teaching Peace in Argentina.
Conferences organised by the Director of the Gernika Peace Museum and the Director of the Gernika Gogoratuz Peace Research Centre at a number of schools, associations, towns, Basque Centres…
Republic! Posters and poster-makers (1931-1939)
Republic! Posters and poster-makers (1931-1939) is an invitation to look back to the Second Republic and the Civil War, as part of the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the proclamation of the regime on 14 April.
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…
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…
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…
The Comics and the Spanish Civil War
The bibliographic exhibition presents a selection of comic books on the Civil War…
