Fine Arts Museum


From Romanesque art to the early avant-garde and their successors, the collection of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum offers a journey that encompasses the main artists, styles and schools of Western art through representative examples. The collection amounts to more than 19,000 works, where 15,000 are an abundant collection of works on paper (engravings, drawings, photography and posters), more than 2,000 are paintings, and around 500 are sculptures. Decorative arts are also represented in the collection with nearly 800 pieces with specimens ranging from the 13th century to the 20th century. In the museum, you can also find the best collection of Basque art, where you can find works by Jorge Oteiza, Chillida or Zuloaga among others.

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  • Today, the museum brings together more than 19,000 works.
  • In the museum there are works by great masters such as El Greco, Joaquín Sorolla, Paul Gaugin or Richard Sierra.
  • A project by Norman Foster and Luis María Uriarte is currently underway for the architectural transformation of the museum.

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Bilbao offers visitors a wide range of cultural activities, and its eleven museums make up an important part of that. They cover a wide variety of themes and concepts, allowing visitors to discover local history, experience universal art, see interesting mergers of form and content and, above all, enjoy human creativity.

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Is the network of museums in Bizkaia very extensive and varied and do they have room for all kinds of exhibitions?

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