The Bilbao Basque Museum exhibition can be visited throughout this month
The Bilbao Basque Museum exhibition installed outdoors in the Itsas Aurre square can be seen throughout the month of September. This exhibition is organized by those responsible for the Basque Museum with the collaboration of representatives of the Bizkaia Provincial Council and the Ondarroa City Council.
The exhibition, called ‘Itsasaur’, hosts a traveling exhibition that stands as an international gateway to Basque culture that the Bilbao Basque Museum launched last May with the aim of showing its comprehensive innovation. It is made up of 20 panels created to be exhibited in outdoor spaces, and its objective is to make the new Basque Museum known to people and visitors to the area, after the comprehensive renovation process that is going to be carried out.
historical pieces
Among the selected pieces, there is a magic lantern, which is an optical device forerunner of the cinematograph dating from the 19th century, coming from the family home of the architect Ricardo Bastida. It consists of a camera obscura with a set of lenses and a support for transparencies painted on glass plates. You can also see the reproduction of Basque Fishmongers, made by Alberto Arrue in 1925. Arrue is attributed to the clothing collection preserved in Euskal Museoa to paint it.
In addition, the Mikeldi, a zoomorphic figure, dating from the third century BC, could not be missing. Made of sandstone, it shows the figure of an animal, possibly a pig or a bull. It was found in Iurreta at the end of the 19th century and transferred to the museum in 1920. This symbol is one of the most important archaeological pieces in the Basque Country.
You can also see photographs such as: ‘The couple and Layadoras’, by Eulalia Abaitua; the Nabarniz shroud, a textile jewel from the XV-XVI century that allows us to learn more about the rituals associated with the funerary world in the Basque Country; or a figurehead to place in the cutwater of the ship, which comes from Bermeo.