Present day - Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

The museum joins the Bono Cultura initiative

As a way of encouraging people to enjoy culture more, and in view of the success of this particular initiative in the previous three years, the Basque Government Department of…

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Presenting a major acquisition

The Museum has acquired Lucretia (oil on panel. 50.8 x 35.8 cm), painted in 1534 by Lucas Cranach the Elder (Kronach, Germany, 1472–Weimar, Germany, 1553), from a private collection in…

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Conference series: Maestros en la sombra

"Maestros en la sombra. La otra cara del Museo del Prado" (Overshadowed Masters. The other side of the Prado Museum) is a programme of eight conferences organized in collaboration with…

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Piranesi exhibition. Activities in the Hall

MULTI-TOUCH SCREEN Use the screen to take an interactive journey through the streets of Rome as shown on Giambattista Nolli’s 1748 map, one of the city’s most important historical documents.…

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QR code tour of Botero exhibition

Download the audioguide of the exhibition from your smart phone (Android or Apple) using the QR code reader. This is an enjoyable, informative tour of the life and work of…

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ZINEBI at the Museum

The Museo del Bellas Artes de Bilbao is once again one of the venues for  ZINEBI, the Bilbao International Festival of Documentary Films and Shorts, the 54the edition of which…

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Pictures at an Exhibition

In conjunction with the performance of Mussorgsky’s "Pictures at an Exhibition" for its 2nd Subscribers’ Concert, the Orquestra Sinfónica de Euskadi will be introducing other artistic disciplines into its concerts.…

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Iñigo Alberdi, Euskadi Symphony Orchestra general director, with Javier Viar, museum director.

Modern Arquitecture

  New honour for the Museum’s architecture. On 1 October and coinciding with World Architecture Day, a plaque has been installed on the Museum’s building that singles out the architectural…

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Image 1: View of the modern building, c. 1971.

Image 2: Jesús Cañada, president of COAVN-Vizcaya and Javier Viar, director of the museum.

Touch Art

  IBERDROLA has been supporting the Museum Education Department since 2008 in its bid to give an increasing number of publics accessibility and to stimulate the development of target groups…

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The new Sorolla Gallery

A permanent gallery displaying a selection of works by Sorolla is to be added to the galleries on the first floor of the old Museum building showing art from the…

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“Horse with Bridles” by Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero’s monumental sculpture "Horse with Bridles" is on display in the city’s Gran Vía outside the head offices of Basque savings bank BBK, which is sponsoring the "Fernando Botero.…

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Goya in “Miradas desde la copa”

Miradas desde la copa appreciates our efforts. The communication and cultural heritage website Miradas desde la copa has just posted a short note on the Museum’s most recent direct marketing…

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Calendar of events

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