Museum sights in Bilbao
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Euskal Museoa
This museum is probably the most complete museum of Basque culture and history in all the Basque regions. The story kicks off back in the days of prehistory and from this murky period the displays bound rapidly through to the modern age. The main problem with the museum is that, unless you speak Spanish (or perhaps you studied Euskara at school?), it’s all a little meaningless as, amazingly, there are no English or French translations.
The museum is housed in a fine old building, at the centre of which is a peaceful cloister that was part of an original 17th-century Jesuit college. In the cloister is the Mikeldi Idol, a powerful pre-Christian, possibly Iron Age, symboli…
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Euskal Museoa, Museo Vasco
This museum is a complete and well-executed lesson in Basque history. The Basque story kicks off back in the days of prehistory and from this murky period the displays bound rapidly through to the modern age. The main problem with the museum is that unless you speak Spanish (or perhaps you studied Euskara at school?) it's all a little meaningless as, amazingly, there are no English or French translations!
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Museo Marítimo Ría de Bilbao
The space-age Museo Marítimo Ría de Bilbao, appropriately sited down on the waterfront, uses bright and well-thought-out displays to bring the watery depths of Bilbao and Basque maritime history to life. There's an outdoor section where children (and nautically inclined grown-ups) can clamber about a range of boats pretending to be pirates and sailors.
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Arkeologi Museo
A slick new museum that, through the use of numerous flashing lights, beeping things and a fair few spearheads and old pots, reinforces the point that the inhabitants of this corner of Spain have lived here for a very long time indeed. Labelling is in Spanish and Basque only.
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