Present day
13-02-18
Practical information and educational resources
"Goya and the Court of Enlightenment" exhibition
Opening times
Wednesdays to Mondays (the museum is closed on Tuesdays), 10am to 8pm
Special Easter Week opening: Tuesdays 27 March and 3 April
Ticket prices
9 Euros (except for certain categories: see terms and conditions) for a standard ticket, which includes entry to the permanent collection and any temporary exhibition at the museum. Every day between 6pm and 8pm there is free entry to the permanent collection and reduced price entry (7 Euros) to the temporary exhibition. Tickets can be acquired online at our web and at the museum's ticket desk.
Social networks
The content on the exhibition to be published on the museum's profiles on Facebook and Twitter (@museobilbao & @museo_bilbao) will appear under the #Goyaenlacorte y #Goyaetagortea.
Audio guide
An audio guide aimed at the general public features a selection of 19 works with commentaries, comprising a complete route around the entire collection lasting approximately 50 minutes. Available from the ticket desk in Basque, Spanish, English and French (3 Euros).
Hand guide
This free guide includes all the works in the exhibition with a brief commentary on their principal points of interest. Available in Basque, Spanish, English and French.
Individual guided tours
Sundays, 12 noon. Free guided tour (sponsored by the Corte Inglés; does not include entry to the museum).
Please book at the museum's ticket desk on acquiring an entry ticket. Prior booking not available.
Languages: Spanish and Basque on the last Sunday of each month.
Saturdays 6.30pm: 4 Euros (does not include entry to the museum).
Booking on tel: 94 439 61 37 and at the museum's ticket desk.
Language: Spanish
Group visits (pre-booked)
Pre-booking for groups through the Visitor Attention Department, tel: 94 439 61 37.
Learning space
Within the exhibition a space has been specially set aside for visitors to submerge themselves in the world of Goya through his tapestries. This space also has an interactive resource for exploring relevant aspects of Goya's work and of the exhibition's context.
Educational material
There are four interactive activities on Goya on the EducaCaixa platform which can be consulted by teachers and the interested general public when preparing a visit to the exhibition:
Educational programme. School visits
Guided tours in Basque, Spanish and English for pupils of ESO, FP and Bachillerato, for adults on training programmes and special needs groups.
Price: 1 Euro per participant
Information and booking: Education and Cultural Action Department, tel. 94 439 61 41
Educational programme. Family workshop
Educational programme. Family workshop Workshop for families in which participants recreate an everyday scene in a context inspired by the decoration of the palaces of El Pardo and El Escorial.
Price: 4 Euros per person, 2 Euros Friends of the Museum.
Coffee-discussion for the over-60s
Visit the exhibition and participate in an enjoyable activity adapted to participants' requirements. Participants can follow up by discussing the exhibition over a coffee.
Price: 4 Euros per person, 2 Euros Friends of the Museum.
5pm to 7pm, 1 to 15 Mach, 12 and 26 April and 10 May.
Information and booking: Education and Cultural Action Department, tel. 94 439 61 41
Publications
Published to accompany the exhibition, the catalogue Goya and the Enlightenment Court includes essays by Manuela B. Mena, Gudrun Maurer and Virginia Albarrán. It is sold together (39 Euros) with the separate publication Goya. Portraits of Basques and Navarrans, published specially for the exhibition in Bilbao. In addition, the museum has published a book in the "Minor" series (20 Euros) in which art historian Aingeru Zabala analyses the relationship between various Basques and the court in a wide-ranging context that encompasses the customs and lifestyle of this period.
These publications are on sale in the museum's shop, at the sale point at the end of the exhibition and on the museum's website
Lecture series
Francisco de Goya. Life and art in Spain in the late 18th century
To be held between mid-April and mid-May, 6 lectures by leading experts will analyse Goya's life and work and the art and society of the Enlightenment period
Shop
There will be an additional sale point within the exhibition itself offering a range of items exclusively designed for this event.