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GERNIKA PEACE MUSEUM
The Gernika Peace Museum opened its doors in 1998. It is a thematic museum dedicated to the culture of peace that is inspired by the tragic bombing of Gernika on April 26, 1937. The permanent exhibition is structured around four axes: 1- What is peace? A wide selection of ideas, concepts, thoughts and points of view in relation to peace -particularly a contemporary idea- in which peace, to solve conflicts, flourishes in terms of relationships between human beings. 2- What is the legacy that the bombing of Gernika left us? A reading of the history of Gernika-Lumo and the Spanish Civil War, the air bombardement of Gernika, and the exemplary lesson about peace taught to us by the survivors of this tragic event through their reconciliation with their attackers. 3- The bombing narrated by the people who lived it The witnesses of the bombing of Gernika tell us what happened to them by audiovisual material. This exhibition shows testimonies collected at different historical moments, those compiled by William Smallwood “Egurtxiki” in the 70s and those compiled in 2018 by Gogora, the Institute for Remembrance, Coexistence and Human Rights of the Basque Government. 4- What about Human Rights in the world today? We take a look at the world through Picasso’s Guernica using human rights as prism to study the current state of peace in the world today. The Museum has organized several conferences and seminars related to Art and Peace and Art and Memory. Art and Peace is a project and working line created in Gernika-Lumo (Bizkaia, Euskadi), in the year 2000 by the Gernika Peace Museum Foundation, the Gernika Gogoratuz Foundation and the Gernika Culture House. This joint project has resulted in several international exhibitions and 7 international congresses addressing a wide range of artistic languages (photography, theater, music...) https://www.gernikagogoratuz. org/arte-y-paz/ As for the theme of Art and Memory, there have been several international conferences and seminars organized by the museum in recent years.
CONFRONTING DISMANTLED MEMORIES: REMEMBRANCE AND CIVIL WAR FACE AU SOUVENIR DÉMANTELÉ : MÉMOIRE ET GUERRE CIVILE
