Agravitas started his flight

The Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts is reopened to the public and the first stone was laid in November 2022 to carry out the project created by the architects Agravitas Norman Foster and Luis María Uriarte, and the museum has been reopened four years later.

During the first week, from 6 to 13 October, the visit will be free, and those who want to see in situ the new look of the exhibition centre will have to take over on the website of the Bilbao Museum. From now on, the museum will be open for free on Tuesday, while the rest of the days (from Monday to Sunday) the general ticket price will be EUR 12.

The museum now has an additional 6,000 square meters, divided into three main spaces: the 1945 building will offer the most classic museography. In the great hall of 1970 you can see contemporary collections of the museum, from the second half of the 20th century onwards, and the BBK museum, a new space that will show temporary exhibitions in the new 1500 square meter diaphanous gallery and sculptures on the terrace.

The sculpture has a prominent role in the entrance to the museum, in the Arriaga Atrium, in the center of which is the fountain created by Francisco Durrio in honor of the Bilbaine composer; in the Plaza Museo, the monumental Shafo of Anselm Kiefer; and from the Plaza Eduado Chillida to the Portal, there are works that welcome visitors from Cristina Iglesias, Richard Serra, Susana Solano, Pello Irazu, Pablo Palazuelo and Chillida himself.

Beyond the exhibition rooms, the museum will host the Auditorium, the Arteder Archives, Libraries and Documentation Centre, the training workshop and, in the attic, the Point of View, an observatory on the works of Jorge Oteiza that are stored in the museum.