Present day - Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

Iberdrola Foundation research grant and aid awards ceremony

At a ceremony held on Thursday 9 July, the Iberdrola Foundation research grants and aid allowances for the 2015-2016 academic year were presented to award winners. Held at Madrid's Casa…

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New guided tours

The Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao possesses the most important collection of works by Basque artists and is also the leading museum in this field with regard to its…

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Presenting the Marta Cárdenas Donation

In 2014 the Museum received a donation from painter Marta Cárdenas (San Sebastián, 1944) of a major set of her works, amounting in all to 295 works on paper and…

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Latest donations

On 22 May the Museum’s Executive Committee accepted the donation of 76 artworks (9 paintings, 2 drawings, 21 prints, 17 sculptures and 27 posters) valued at more than 620,000 €…

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76 artworks donated to the Museum.

Prize draw for tickets on Twitter

Starting on Thursday 21 May, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao will be offering a weekly prize draw on its Twitter account (@museo-bilbao). Lasting until 11 June, every week…

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18 May – International Museums Day

To mark the last day of the exhibition Equipo Crónica, the Museum is offering free entry to this outstanding exhibition and free guided tours around it. Monday 18 May, 12…

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Presenting donation of a Lecuona oil painting

Besides being a forerunner of Basque popular genre painting, also known as costumbrismo, Antonio María Lecuona (Tolosa, Gipuzkoa, 1831-Ondarroa, Bizkaia, 1907) also spent three decades teaching an entire generation of…

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It's Bookcrossing time again!

World Book Day is held every April 23rd and, once again, 54 Spanish museum and cultural centre libraries are joining in on the Bookcrossinginitiative, which involves"liberating" more than 2,000 books…

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Film cycle

Cinema classics that have something to say about the relationship between film and French haute couture.   Monkey Business. Howard Hawks, 1952 (Version dubbed into Spanish) Friday 17 April, 7.30pm Gentlemen…

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#MuseumWeek on Twitter

MuseumWeek is on all this week. ItŽs a special event as museums all over the world tweet their own contents under different hashtags: #secrets #souvenirsMW #arquitectureMW #inspirationMW #familyMW and #favoritesMW.…

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Dynamic Agents of Artistic Projects

El curso explora nuevos contextos e iniciativas artísticas para implicar, concienciar y crear nuevos públicos. Apuesta por una práctica reflexiva y activa de la educación artística, haciendo un recorrido desde…

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Guided tours and educational workshop

Few episodes in recent Spanish art have been able to visually evoke the country´s social, political and cultural situation at a particular moment. Equipo Crónica - Rafael Solbes 1940-1981, Joan…

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Calendar of events

BBK Art Route V

exhibition

Eugui artistic armoury, Navarra

exhibition

Néstor Basterretxea

exhibition

Out of Control. Reports on the Atomic Bomb

exhibition

Nicolás de Lekuona donation

exhibition

Begoña María Azkue Bequest 

exhibition

BBKateak

exhibition

Sergio Prego. Thirteen to Centaurus

exhibition