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Surrounded by stimuli and playing games, babies and their families interact as they explore the galleries of the Museum.
This season, the program takes inspiration from the work of Richard Serra and the coming of autumn, offering a sensory journey that weaves together art, movement, and nature. Warm colors, textures, sounds, and autumnal rhythms transform the space into an immersive experience where babies can move freely around and explore materials in an environment that echoes Serra’s monumental sculptures, sparking their curiosity and awakening their senses.
Conducted by: Mertxe Periz, Mónica Rodríguez-Curiel
Saturday, December 6 and Sunday 7: 12–24 months (Spanish)
Saturday, December 13 and Sunday 14: 6–12 months (Spanish)
Ages: 6–24 months
Duration: 120 min.
Languages: Spanish
Limited spaces available

Surrounded by stimuli and playing games, babies and their families interact as they explore the galleries of the Museum.

Baby Art | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Sensory Games: Feel, Play, Create

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Discover Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Soft Shuttlecock, a giant badminton shuttlecock mostly made of soft materials.
In this workshop, we will use something soft and fragile – feathers – to stimulate your senses. Imagine feeling as light as a feather… Playing body games in a fun dynamics, you will become air, and you will have to sharpen your senses as you manipulate different materials, letting yourself be surprised by their textures, shapes, and smells. Let your senses guide you through this special trip where action, creativity, and fun are guaranteed.
Our sensory games are designed for the whole family to enjoy a rewarding, meaningful experience together, encouraging free exploration in a collaborative environment.
Conducted by: Ismene Madariaga
Times and ages: 10:15 am, 3–5 (1 group); 12:15 pm, 6–10 (1 group)
Duration: 90 min.
Languages: Bilingual (Spanish, Basque)
Limited spaces available

Discover Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Soft Shuttlecock, a giant badminton shuttlecock mostly made of soft materials.

Sensory Games: Feel, Play, Create | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Books Alive! Little Dots (3–5 años)

Visiting Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Anatomy of Space, we will see how the artist uses lines and colors to create fascinating labyrinth-like spaces in her paintings. We will also listen to a delightful story, The Dot, whose main character develops their own artistic style starting from a single dot. Together, we will see how a simple dot can grow into something much larger and amazing — and by connecting dots, we will draw lines, shapes, and compositions of our own. This activity invites us to spark our imagination, share our creative process, and explore new forms of artistic expression.
Conducted by: Adria Parravicini
Ages: 3–5
Language: English
Duration: 120 min.
Limited capacity

Books Alive! Little Dots (Ages: 3–5)

Visiting Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Anatomy of Space, we will see how the artist uses lines and colors to create fascinating labyrinth-like spaces in her paintings.

Books Alive! Little Dots (Ages: 3–5) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Art Adventures: Secret Spaces

Visiting Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Anatomy of Space, you will discover astonishing places: some seem real, while others are the product of the artist’s imagination. You will come across shapes that are reminiscent of mosaics or tiles, lines that suggest movement, labyrinthine spaces, and figures that hover somewhere between the figurative and the abstract. You will also see how the artist blends what we see with what we imagine.
Through creativity and play, this workshop invites you to build a fantastic space using a combination of collage and movable elements. An adventure to learn, have fun, and let your imagination take flight.
Conducted by: Aitziber Aguirre, Mónica Martínez, Adria Parravicini
Saturdays, December 6 and 13 (Spanish), and Sunday 14 (Basque)
Duration: 90 min.
Ages: 3–5
Languages: Basque and Spanish
Limited capacity

Visiting Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Anatomy of Space, you will discover astonishing places: some seem real, while others are the product of the artist’s imagination.

Art Adventures: Secret Spaces | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Books Alive! Little Dots (Ages: 6–10)

Visiting Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Anatomy of Space, we will explore how the artist uses lines and colors to create fascinating labyrinth-like spaces in her paintings. We will also listen to a delightful story, The Dot, whose main character develops their own artistic style starting from a single dot. Together, we will see how a simple dot can grow into something much larger and amazing — and by connecting dots, we will draw lines, shapes, and compositions of our own. This activity invites us to spark our imagination, share our creative process, and explore new forms of artistic expression.
Conducted by: Adria Parravicini
Ages: 6–10
Duration: 120 min.
Language: English
Limited capacity

Visiting Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Anatomy of Space, we will explore how the artist uses lines and colors to create fascinating labyrinth-like spaces in her paintings.

Books Alive! Little Dots (Ages: 6–10) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Family Yoga

This yoga practice for the whole family invites us to share and connect, enjoying postures anyone can try. This month, we will draw inspiration from Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Soft Shuttlecock, a giant badminton shuttlecock mostly made of soft materials.
Learning to use a variety of yoga techniques, you will feel as light as wind or air, as you try different poses, body dynamics, and breathing exercises. This activity will give the little ones, and the grown-ups with them, the chance to connect to their creative essence as they explore conscious movement.
Conducted by: Eliezer Ruiz
Ages: 6–10
Duration: 90 min.
Languages: Bilingual (Spanish, Basque)
No experience required
Limited spaces available

This yoga practice for the whole family invites us to share and connect, enjoying postures anyone can try.

Family Yoga | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Creativity Lab: Fantasy Spaces

Explore the work of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: take your mind on a journey through cities and other places, both real and imaginary, filled with color, movement, and multiple perspectives.
Inspired by her work, you will have to blend fantasy and reality to invent your own unique spaces. You could design cities in forests, labyrinths in the sky, or interiors that become exteriors, discovering new ways to see and construct space.
In this creativity lab, you will experiment with fragmented perspectives and find the beauty of imagining your own worlds, in line with Vieira da Silva’s inventive spirit. This workshop invites you to explore how to transform and inhabit spaces, awakening curiosity, personal expression, and the joy of playing with shapes and movement in space.
Conducted by: Aitziber Aguirre, Adria Parravicini
Ages: 6–10
Duration: 90 min.
Languages: Basque and Spanish
Limited capacity

Explore the work of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: take your mind on a journey through cities and other places, both real and imaginary, filled with color, movement, and multiple perspectives.

Creativity Lab: Fantasy Spaces | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Play Experiences: Random Play

Enjoy a family-friendly session of free play inspired by British multidisciplinary artist Mark Leckey, whose works – videos, installations, sound installations, performances – draw on elements of popular culture to explore the intersections between everyday life and magic.
Leckey’s work will be a source of inspiration for you to make an installation with random pieces, which you can use in any way you want. His ability to link the realm of everyday life to the symbolic sphere and turn everyday objects into emotional and cultural triggers will be your starting point to improve, transform, or create objects with random pieces, recycled materials, and simple mechanisms.
This ephemeral experience exists only in the present and does not take a fixed physical form, so you can experiment, question, and let your curiosity lead the way as you explore an endless series of “What if…?” scenarios.
Conducted by: VACA rules!
Times and ages: 10:15 am, 3–5 (1 group); 12:15 pm, 6–10 (1 group)
Duration: 90 min.
Language: Spanish
Limited spaces available

Enjoy a family-friendly session of free play inspired by British multidisciplinary artist Mark Leckey, whose works – videos, installations, sound installations, performances – draw on elements of popular culture to explore the intersections between everyday life and magic.

Play Experiences: Random Play | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Books Alive! Finding a Rabbit in Wonderland (Ages: 3–5)

Listen to the adventures of Alice in Wonderland and imagine Alice in the Queen of Hearts’ palace as you explore the works of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. In this artist’s paintings, you will discover extraordinary, unconventional, labyrinth-like spaces filled with optical illusions that challenge traditional perspective. In these worlds, anything can happen! Uncertainty and amazement will be our travel companions on this journey, where imagination and mystery take center stage. At the end, each of us will create our own extraordinary space — a place where optical illusions take on a life of their own.
Conducted by: Catalina Martínez-Moro
Duration: 120 min.
Ages: 3–5
Language: English
Limited capacity

Listen to the adventures of Alice in Wonderland and imagine Alice in the Queen of Hearts’ palace as you explore the works of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva.

Books Alive! Finding a Rabbit in Wonderland (Ages: 3–5) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Art & Movement

Step into a world where drawing and movement come alive together. In this session, you will be creating art with your whole body, not just drawing with your hand. Jump, roll, dance, wander around, and laugh as you see how your physical actions shape the marks you make—and how your strokes inspire movement.
Warning! This playful session is likely to spark lots of excitement and laughter! No drawing or dancing skills? No problem!
You can join solo, with a friend, or as a family. Inspired by the research done by Simona Lobefaro and Alessandro Lumare (Segni Mossi), this session is all about exploring the connections between drawing and movement, usually considered as distinct, unconnected languages.
Conducted by: VACA rules!
Times and ages: 10:15 am, 3–5 (1 group); 12:15 pm, 6–10 (1 group)
Duration: 90 min.
Language: Spanish
Limited spaces available

Step into a world where drawing and movement come alive together. In this session, you will be creating art with your whole body, not just drawing with your hand.

Art &amp; Movement | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Art & Movement | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Zinetxiki Zinemaldia

Family Holiday Season

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Special Film, Music and Dance session at the 10th edition of the International Zinetxiki Zinemaldia Festival
Film, music and live dance can all be enjoyed as part of this special session celebrating creativity as a language of cultural expression. Cinema invites us to imagine and perceive situations and stories created with images, while music and dance contribute the expressive power of the body and sound, transmitting a collective memory and shared emotions. Together, these expressive arts enrich people's experiences, stimulating artistic sensitivity and promoting the intellectual, social and physical development of children with their families.
Performed by: Ana Capilla and Kike Mora.
An activity organized with the TopARTE program of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Duration: 75 min.
Age: 3+
Language: Silent films and OV films in Spanish and Basque with subtitles
* Program subject to change
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Begin your Christmas holiday with an afternoon filled with film and live music, courtesy of Zinetxiki Zinemaldia, a festival organized by Begira Elkartea.

Zinetxiki Zinemaldia | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Playing in the Museum

This Christmas season, come to the Museum and take part in a treasure hunt including enigmas and drawing tasks for the whole family. The game invites visitors to explore our exhibition Arts of the Earth and the new presentation of the Museum Collection, enjoying the works of art and doing a series of creative activities in the galleries, at their own pace. Follow mysterious clues in a landscape… Spot a sea of grass… Identify dormant seeds… Find the clay… Trace particular smells… This activity brings three things together: creativity, sensory learning, and environmental awareness. Get your game at the Museum’s admission desk!
Ages: 3–11

This Christmas season, come to the Museum and take part in a treasure hunt including enigmas and drawing tasks for the whole family. The game invites visitors to explore our exhibition Arts of the Earth and the new presentation of the Museum Collection,

Playing in the Museum | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Children’s Shows: Closka

In December, the Museum will be staging Closka, a show for kids by Panic Map aimed at raising awareness of the need to take care of the environment and be in contact with nature. Closka is a stage experience to help audiences think of the beauty and the responsibility of living in our little corner of the universe. In a fascinating journey, it reveals the story of Closka, a turtle with a dangerous mission: finding the way back home.
Directed and produced by Juan Pablo Mendiola, Closka was premiered in 2023. Since then, it has received numerous awards. Panic Map takes a multidisciplinary approach, going beyond the traditional boundaries between the arts to fire the imagination and stimulate curiosity.
Performers: Laura Valero, Joan Ballester
Duration: 45 min.
Age: 4+
Language: Show with no dialogue
* Activity subject to change

In December, the Museum will be staging Closka, a show for kids by Panic Map aimed at raising awareness of the need to take care of the environment and be in contact with nature.

Children’s Shows: Closka | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Christmas Workshops: Winter Soil: Art beneath Your Feet

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We seldom take a look at the ground we are standing on, but there is a world brimming with life beneath our feet: roots, seeds, leaves… a hidden life. The artists that are part of our exhibition Arts of the Earth invite us to discover the beauty and complexity of the soil as an ecosystem and as a source of inspiration in art.
In this workshop, we will explore the shapes and textures of the winter soil, when cold and moisture protect the life hidden in subsurface layers. Then, we will make our own winter soil fragments using clay, earth, leaves, seeds, and roots. Finally, we will bring all fragments together in a huge group mural – a symbol of the ground we share, the ground that connects us all. This workshop is a collaborative sensory experience in art and nature, raising our environmental awareness.
Monday, December 22 (Spanish), Friday 26 (Basque) and Monday 29 (Spanish); Friday, January 2 (Basque) and Saturday 3 (Spanish)
Conducted by: Aitziber Aguirre, Mónica Rodríguez-Curiel
Duration: 90 min.
Ages: 6–10
Limited spaces available

We seldom take a look at the ground we are standing on, but there is a world brimming with life beneath our feet: roots, seeds, leaves… a hidden life.

Christmas Workshops: Winter Soil: Art beneath Your Feet | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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Online Art Courses: Films and Museums: Four Encounters between the Language of Film and Art Venues

In this online course, we will explore the relationship between films and museums, revisiting some of the most remarkable moments of the dialogue between them.
Conducted by: Juan Zapater, cultural agent and author writing about art and film
Target audience: Adults 
Type of course: Online 
Structure: 4 modules, 16 video lessons, additional resources 
Workload: 6 hours (at your own pace) 
Language: Spanish 
Certification: Upon completion of the course, participants will get a certificate
What will you learn in this course?
<ul>
<li>The ways in which the language of film interacts with museums in a rich and complex dialogue.</li>
<li>Examples of films and filmmakers focusing on this relationship.</li>
<li>Simple tools to analyze films from various perspectives using different methods.</li>
<li>The work of women filmmakers and the role they have played in the history of film.</li>
</ul>
Introduction
The earliest motion pictures date back to 1895. They were screened in fairs by precursors like George Méliès and the Lumière Brothers. Confined within the realm of popular culture, cinema rose to the form of art in the first decades of the twentieth century thanks to pioneering filmmakers such as D. W. Griffith. However, it would take a few more decades for films to make their way into museums. This would only happen after the emergence of digital media, in the later decades of the twentieth century. Before, their humble origins kept films within the sphere of low culture, unable to cross the line that separated entertainment from art.
Even though the avant-garde and surrealism explored the expressive possibilities of cinema in their creative experiences, and despite the existence of experimental film, the dominance of Hollywood and the American film industry kept films away from museums of contemporary and modern art for decades. Ironically enough, it was only when it went from celluloid to digital that cinema found its way to museum galleries and exhibitions.
Contents and Method
The course is divided into four modules, each module revolving round a key film.
Module I: Une visite au Louvre, by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub (France, 2003).
Module II: Russian Ark, by Alexander Sokurov (Russia-Germany, 2002)
Module III: The Square, by Ruben Östlund (Sweden, 2017).
Module IV: Vertigo, by Alfred Hitchcock (United States, 1958).
Each module will consist of a discussion of the corresponding film in context, followed by an analysis of the connections between the film and the museum featured in it.
In the video lessons, other examples will be provided of film/museum matches, which will offer a wider view of the changes in narratives, uses, and creations in the history of film.
Each module will use a different combination of methods and media, including films, images, and texts.
Participants are encouraged to watch the films on their own before the course starts, if they have never watched them before.

In this online course, we will explore the relationship between films and museums, revisiting some of the most remarkable moments of the dialogue between them.

Online Art Courses: Films and Museums: Four Encounters between the Language of Film and Art Venues | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

15€ Adults - 7.5€ Senior - 7.5€ Students

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