The Gernika Peace Museum is a theme museum setting out the culture of peace. It was inspired by the tragic bombing of Gernika on 26th April 1937 (Spanish Civil War). The museum has a specialised documentation centre and department of education (with workshops and summer camps). They organise conferences and they have their own Gernika Award for Peace and Reconciliation (in collaboration with the City Council, Gernika Gogoratuz Peace Research Center and the Culture House of Gernika).
The mission of the Gernika Peace Museum Foundation is to preserve, display, publicise, conduct research and educate visitors in the basic ideas of the culture of peace, and the past and present relation of this culture to the history of Gernika-Lumo, so that, together with other history and peace organisations, Gernika-Lumo, the province of Bizkaia and the Basque Country be used as local, regional, national and international references in the search for peace and culture.
The permanent exhibition of the museum operates around three major questions:
- What is peace?
- What is the legacy of the bombing of Gernika?
- What about peace in the world today?
The Gernika Peace Museum travelling exhibitions and current exhibitions are included in our exhibitions section.
Foru Plaza 1
48300, Gernika-Lumo, Spain
www.museodelapaz.org
www.peacemuseumguernica.org
museoa@gernika-lumo.net