The Gernika Peace Museum
The Gernika Peace Museum is a thematic museum dedicated to the culture of peace. Inspired by the tragic bombing of Gernika, it addresses the two areas of work of the Museum, History and Peace, through various axes or questions.
It consists of several rooms, as well as emotional audiovisuals narrated by the survivors of the tragedy themselves.
The museum has different types of guided tours for groups or individuals, outdoor guided tours, temporary and permanent exhibitions, combined tickets with other museums, activities and workshops, congresses and its own shop.
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- After a brief introduction to the concept of Peace, this interactive museum takes us back to the 26th of April 1937, the day on which bombs and fire reduced the streets of the town of Gernika to rubble.
- It comprises various rooms exhibiting poignant audiovisual presentations narrated by the survivors of the tragedy themselves.
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A Good Idea
Gernika-Lumo is a city steeped in history, in addition to having the Peace Museum, it is also a symbol of the most deeply-rooted traditions. In the town is the Assembly House and the Tree of Gernika, seat of the historic parliament of Bizkaia and universal symbol of the Basques, the Jai Alai Fronton, considered one of the best frontons in the world, the Euskal Herria Museum, where visitors can discover the history of the Basque People, the Monday Market, , one of the few traditional markets in the Basque Country with more than 650 years of history, where visitors can buy the best agricultural products, as well as many other places of interest: Gothic Church of Santa Maria, Mural "Guernica" by Picasso, the Park of the Peoples of Europe and sculptures...
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Gernika is located in the very heart of the Urdaibai Reserve, an extraordinarily beautiful natural area of exceptional environmental interest. The estuary of the river Oka is one of this area’s most important attractions, a veritable spectacle teeming with life and boasting a variety of landscapes that are the result of centuries of harmonious coexistence between nature and the 22 villages it contains.