The Artium Museum attaches importance to its own collection on its 25th anniversary

The Artium Museum celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2027 with a program focused on the history and transformation of the public collection of more than 3,000 worksof art .

The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country today presented the main lines of this celebration, the funds of which will be distributed in the halls of the building during the first half of the year.

One of the axes of the programming will be the collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts of Álava, which will make it possible to strengthen the ties between the two institutions through the exchange of works of art, so that the Triptych of War of Aurelio Arteta (1879-1940) will arrive at Artium  and in return, Mousquetaire à la pipe, by Pablo Picasso, will go to the halls of Fine Arts.

The exchange will link the collections of both institutions. Picasso's work was acquired by the Diputación Foral de Álava in 1979 and is part of the founding collection of the Artium Museum, while the triptych of Arteta belongs to the funds of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava.

As an advance to the planned reorganization in 2027, Artium adds in room A0 the first presentation of works and documents related to the exhibition that the Orain group organized in 1966 at the Museum ofFine Arts of Álava. Among the pieces exhibited are the works  by Juan Mieg andCarmelo Ortiz de Elgea, along with the materials of the archive  by Joaquín Fraile and José Ignacio Vegas Aramburu.

Artium wants to take a look back at the evolution of public funds on the anniversary.