Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
Front façade
Map
Established1914 (1914)
LocationBilbao, Spain
Coordinates43°15′57.506″N 2°56′16.260″W / 43.26597389°N 2.93785000°W / 43.26597389; -2.93785000
TypeArt museum
Collection size10,000 items, 600 part of the exhibition
Visitors150 721 (2022)
DirectorMiguel Zugaza
Public transit access
  • Moyua Bilbao metro
  • Abandoibarra
  • Guggenheim
Websitemuseobilbao.com

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[1] and one of the richest Spanish museums outside Madrid.[2] 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, Sofonisba Anguissola, Murillo, Goya, Luis Paret, Van Dyck, Ruisdael and Bellotto, together with 19th century and modern: Gustave Doré, Sorolla, Mary Cassatt, Paul Gauguin, Henri Le Sidaner, James Ensor, Jacques Lipchitz, Peter Blake, Francis Bacon and Richard Serra.

  1. ^ "Museos de Bellas Artes a examen". Consumer Eroski. 2010. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
  2. ^ "Spain: The Best Art Museums in Spain". Tripadvisor. Retrieved 2016-05-06.