Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
| Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa | |
Former main entrance.
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 Location within Basque Country
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| Established | 1914 |
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| Location | Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain |
| Coordinates | 43°15′57″N 2°56′17″W / 43.2657060°N 2.9379310°W |
| Type | Art museum, Provincial museum |
| Collection size | 10,000 items, 600 part of the exhibition |
| Visitors | 200,000 (2015) |
| Director | Javier Viar |
| Public transit access |
Moyua Station (Metro Bilbao) Abandoibarra, Guggenheim (Bilbao's Tram) |
| Website | museobilbao |
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (Spanish: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Basque: Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa) is an art museum located in the city of Bilbao, Spain. The building of the museum is located entirely inside the city's Doña Casilda Iturrizar park.
It is the second largest and most visited museum in the Basque Country, after the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum and one of the richest Spanish museums outside Madrid. It houses a valuable and quite comprehensive collection of Basque, Spanish and European art from the Middle Ages to contemporary, including paintings by old masters like El Greco, Cranach, Murillo, Goya, Van Dyck, Ruisdael and Bellotto, together with 19th century and modern: Sorolla, Mary Cassatt, Gauguin, Henri Le Sidaner, James Ensor, Peter Blake and Francis Bacon.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao was established in 1908. After moving through various venues, the final headquarters were built in 1945, in a great neoclassical building that was to undertake paths expansions in 1970 and 2001 to house the growing museum collection.
The collection of the present Bilbao Fine Arts Museum originated with the merger of the collections from the first Museo de Bellas Artes, inaugurated in 1914, and the Museo de Arte Moderno (Museum of Modern Art) in 1924. In 2008 the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao reached its century under the slogan "100 Years of History, 10 Centuries of Art".
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