Present day - Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

Isabel Baquedano Donation

  Dovetailing with the celebration of International Women's Day, the museum is presenting to the public in its Gallery A (artist) the first stop in the tour through the museum's…

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Encounter. Muntadas. The Empty City

  Bilbao and its current urban planning are the point of departure of the latest multidisciplinary project that Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) has developed at the museum’s invitation, to be…

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Shared collection

  In 2020, the Department of Culture and Language Policy of the Basque Government earmarked aid worth 150,000 euros to palliate the difficulties that our art community is suffering from…

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Tour through rooms. Latest donations and acquisitions

  Presentamos un nuevo recorrido por las salas del museo para conocer las donaciones y adquisiciones incorporadas a la colección en el segundo trimestre de 2020. Entre las nuevas obras…

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Special Offer

Hoy invito yo Promoción permanente de gratuidad If you are under 18, admission to the museum is free. And an adult can also accompany you free of charge.   A…

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Latest donations and acquisitions 2020

Last December, the Board of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum approved the addition to the collection of an extensive set of works donated during the second half of the year…

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Mediation programme: guided tours around the museum’s architectures and the public sculpture around it

  Visitas guiadas alrededor del perímetro del museo para conocer la historia de los edificios que en la actualidad lo conforman, sus distintas fases de construcción, los detalles de su…

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Talks with Ibon Aranberri: “Zulo beltzen geometria”

  Zulo beltzen geometria (Geometry of the black holes) (2019) es una instalación surgida de una intervención que Ibon Aranberri (Itziar-Deba, Gipuzkoa, 1969) llevó a cabo en 2003. Tras una…

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Research and dissemination of Bizkaia’s artistic heritage lead the Fine Arts Museum and the Museum of Sacred Art to team up in their first collaboration agreement

  This morning, Juan Mari Aburto, mayor of Bilbao and President of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Foundation, and Joseba Segura, bishop in charge of administering the diocese of Bilbao,…

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Cinema in the museum II

  Historias de cine II "Los ciclos retornan, como las estaciones, y no se parecen. O mejor dicho,no se parecen en la superficie pero responden al mismo impulso primordial: Ajustar…

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Cinema in the museum III

  Ciclo Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel es uno de los cineastas más admirados de la historia del cine, referente de varias generaciones. Tras casi 50 años de una carrera desarrollada…

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Today, in a meeting attended both in-person and virtually by Bingen Zupiria, spokesperson and minister of Culture and Linguistic Policy of the Basque Government, Unai Rementeria, chairman of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, and Juan Mari Aburto, mayor of Bilbao, the Museum Board expressed their support for the expansion plan designed by Norman Foster and Luis Mª Uriarte

In the wake of Bilbao City Council's approval of the Special Plan and presentation of the core project, the final drafting and bidding process of the construction project—commencing in September…

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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