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…
Essential books on the bombing of Gernika
Tema: Memory
Mauthausen, The Graphic Chronicle
In 1996, The Mauthausen Survivors’ Associations and those groups representing survivors of other concentration camps in Spain deposited part of their historical collections in the Museu h’Història de Catalunya. Amongst said funds was a collection of negatives which came from the Nazi concentration camps of Mauthausen and Gusen (Austria)…
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…
Historical Memory
This time coincides with the 79th anniversary of the air bombardement of Gernika, for these reason, the museum presents a selection of books on Historical Memory…
Rememchild project: Drawings of the past, drawings of today
Objective: The workshop ‘Drawings from the past, drawings from the present’, carried out as part of the European Rememchild project, aims to address the issue of what it means to be a child or young person during a conflict.
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…
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…
Cartoons to Remember. Cartoons published in the Bilbao newspapers during the war in the Basque Country (1936-37)
The Gernika Peace Museum has opened to the public an interesting temporary exhibition entitled ”Cartoons to Remember. Cartoons published in the Bilbao newspapers during the war in the Basque Country (1936-37)” curated by historians Aline Soberon and Txema Uriarte.
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…
Argentina: Educate in remembrance to build the future
This exhibit presents some moments of the history of the education in Argentina since the XIX century…
Rememchild project: Walls against oblivion
Objective: The ‘Walls Against Oblivion’ workshop, carried out as part of the European project Rememchild, aims to address the issue of what it means to be a child or teenager during a conflict.
Confronting Dismantled Memories: Remembrance and Civil War
The topic of the Spanish Civil War and its consequences has proven an unusual one for many artists working after the end of Franco’s dictatorship.
