Art to Touch. Visual Accessibility Programme
2025-01-28
Art to Touch turns the optical illusion of Victor Vasarely’s painting into a tactile experience. This is the new challenge of this visual accessibility programme in which sixty-six schools in…
Present day
Third Xabier Sáenz de Gorbea Artistic Commitment Award
2024-12-25
The jury of the Xabier Sáenz de Gorbea Artistic Commitment Award—made up of Miguel Zugaza, director of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum; Beatriz Herráez, director of Artium Museoa (Vitoria-Gasteiz); Frantxi…
BBKateak
2024-06-26
In June 2022, the museum launched BBKateak, an initiative that, over the course of these two years, has made it possible to exhibit 64 encounters between 110 artists from the…
Gau Zuria
2024-06-14
The founding of Bilbao (June 15, 1300) is commemorated every year with an extensive program of live and nightly shows. Music, light and sound shows, performing arts or literature, among…
Three new exhibitions for the summer
2024-05-30
BBK and the museum welcome the summer with the new exhibition program that, over the next few weeks, will be spread throughout the rooms of the museum. From June 7,…
Donation of the Roberto Sáenz de Gorbea Collection
2024-05-13
The collector and gallery owner Roberto Sáenz de Gorbea has donated an important set of artworks comprised of paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper to the Bilbao Fine Arts…
New phase of the Agravitas expansion
2024-04-25
On 19 January 2024, the first V-columns of the structure of the expansion of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum were placed. This marked a very important milestone in the implementation of…
BBKateak new rotation
2024-03-20
Getting beyond conventions Murillo captures the ecstasy of this standing Saint Adelelmus by tinkering with the volume, weight and scale until achieving the monumentality and artistic solidity of a…
Iberdrola-Museum Conservation and Restoration Programme
2024-03-06
The Iberdrola-Museum Conservation and Restoration Programme takes shape in actions whose goal is to ensure the material integrity of the works of art in order to properly conserve and exhibit…
Art to Touch. Visual accessibility programme
2024-01-29
Since 2012, Iberdrola and the museum have been partnering in the Art to Touch programme, whose main goal is to make learning about and enjoyment of works of art accessible…
Preview of 2024 activities
2023-12-22
During the architectural enlargement process and the parallel museographic transformation, the Bilbao museum’s ties with its history and its future outlook have become the driving ideas around which its public…
Tour de France posters
2023-06-29
The Basque Country will host the Grand Départ of the 110th edition of the Tour de France and the first three stages of the race, starting in Bilbao on 1…
