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Best museums in the Basque Country



 

 GUGGENHEIM 

Bilbao

Designed by American architect Frank Gehry, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao building represents a magnificent example of the most groundbreaking 20th-century architecture. With 24,000 m2, of which 11,000 are dedicated to exhibition space, the Museum represents an architectural landmark of audacious configuration and innovating design, providing a seductive backdrop for the art exhibited in it.

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  BELLAS ARTES BILBAO 

Bilbao

Large collection of art pieces in one of the most important museums of Spain

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 MUSEO SAN TELMO 

Donostia - San Sebastián

The San Telmo Museum, inaugurated in 1902, is the oldest in the Basque Country; today it is reintroducing itself and its new objectives. Working from the basis of its funds, almost totally related to Basque society, San Telmo has been renovated to become a Museum of Basque Society and Citizenship.

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CHILLIDA LEKU

Hernani

Chillida Leku is a unique museum, and itself a great work of art. Nature and art naturally come together in the space. The sculptures are integrated into the landscape as though they had always been part of it.

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AQUARIUM

DONOSTIA - SAN SEBASTIAN

Since its origins, in addition to the widely known aquariums, the San Sebastian Aquarium has housed an oceanographic museum with valuable heritage elements that, through the different areas of the museum, help to explain and contextualise the rich maritime and marine history of the Basque Country and San Sebastian, their fishing and corsair, the boats used for the great deeds of their sailors, …

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 CASA DE LA HISTORIA 

winter closed

Donostia - San Sebastián

The exhibition Looking at San Sebastián, journeys through the history of the city and its economic, urban, social and cultural development, making reference to the Basque identity. The exhibition is therefore a great opportunity get to know ourselves better and delve into our contemporary history.

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 CRISTOBAL BALENCIAGA 

Getaria

The Cristobal Balenciaga Foundation has a unique collection by the brilliant fashion couturier. Its size, its formal and chronological diversity include from the earliest to the most recent models by the genius from Guipuzkoa.

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 MUSEE HISTORIQUE BIARRITZ 

Biarritz

Hidden in the former Saint Andrews Anglican Church, you will find the Historical Museum of Biarritz, with artworks  and personal objets donated by biarrots representing the most important periods of the City.

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AQUARIUM

BIARRITZ

In a splendid Art Deco monument, the visitor will discover a magnificent living spectacle spread across nearly fifty aquariums and thousands of species.

Not to be missed: the seals’ basin or the sharks’ cave for an unexpected face to face. Specialised in the fauna and flora of the Bay of Biscay, it presents more than 150 species of fish and invertebrates.

Since June 2011, the Sea Museum has doubled its exhibition area and invites you to embark on new journeys following the Gulf Stream, from the Bay of Biscay up to the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific.

Through the visit, enjoy a Caribbean lagoon, a coral reef and giant tanks housing sharks, rays, barracudas and tropical fish…

You will also be able to try out new sensations in a touch tank that will delight the most curious ones. And don’t miss the show at seal feeding time – everyday at 10.30am and 5pm.

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 ASIATICA 

Biarritz

The cultures of the Orient, particularly those of India, China and Tibet, have always attracted the attention of Europeans. But few can spare the time to visit these countries, or the Museums that have the collections of Asiatic art, such as the Musée Guimet in Paris or the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, or those of Amsterdam and Berlin. Moreover, in these museums, the visitor must already be well informed in order to understand the works of art exhibited there. Here, in Biarritz, Musée Asiatica would fill a vacuum because it not only presents unique works of art, but the visitor is invited to sit in their shade and to consult the information cards on all these countries, the periods and the works of art that characterize them. And while he is doing so, he can admire all around him the arts of the region concerned. Musée Asiatica is thus a different kind of museum, the only one of its kind, in fact, where the visitor may spend hours in enriching himself.

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 MUSEE BONNAT-HELLEU 

Bayonne

CLOSED

Around 6.000 art pieces gathered by painter Léon Bonnat, from Bayonne.

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 MUSEE BASQUE 

Bayonne

Découvrez la culture basque dans ses plus beaux écrins, la Maison Dagourette et le Chateau Neuf.

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