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A Museum for everyone

One of the priorities of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is to make sure that everyone has access to all Museum services and activities. We therefore offer you this information guide as a complement to our catalogue of general information. Please send us any remarks or suggestions you may have.

Buying Tickets

The Museum offers a disability discount (same as student/pensioner discount) to visitors showing proof of disability. If a visitor must come with a companion, admission for the latter is free.

For more information, please contact our Visitor Support Service before coming to the Museum.

Audio guides and video guides

Audio guides

An audio guide app will be available for download.

Video guides

In Spanish sign-language or with subtitles for the hearing impaired.

Models

Visually impaired visitors are given the opportunity to discover the Museum building and the sculptures Tulips, Puppy, Maman and Tall Tree and the Eye thanks to tactile models.

MIND’S EYE

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO SENSORY GUIDE

Designed for those who are blind or have low vision, but illuminating for all, this sensory guide uses precise, evocative language to convey the Frank Gehry museum’s architecture and the sensorial experience of moving through it.

*Mind’s Eye guide is made possible by ORNELLAIA

Chairs

Strollers and baby-carriers

If you would like to borrow a baby stroller or carrier, ask at the coatroom.

Whellchairs

Wheelchairs are available for the comfort of visitors who require them. Ask at our coatroom.

Portable chairs

Ultra-light chairs to rest at any point on your tour. Ask at our coatroom.

Restrooms

All restrooms have individual wheelchair accessible toilets.

There are also baby-changing facilities on floors 1 and 0.

 

Services

Our staff will provide personalized assistance.

These services are temporarily unavailable.

The Museum library specializes in books on modern and contemporary art.

Our librarians will be able to assist you if you have any questions.

 

Has spaces reserved for wheelchairs and is equipped with a magnetic loop.

Are adapted for wheelchair users and are equipped with a magnetic loop.

In addition to a bar accessible from the square, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao offers visitors two international culinary experiences of very fine quality. Nerua, a restaurant serving haute cuisine, and the Bistró Guggenheim Bilbao, a more informal, accommodating and different proposal for any time of the day or night.

Both restaurants are accessible and provide service at all tables.

If there is something you are unable to eat, let us know and we will suggest suitable alternatives.

The restaurants also have high chairs for children.

All elevators are large enough to provide convenient service between floors.

The information desk will help you with everything you need, including ticket purchase, coatroom services, and audio guides.

School Visits

If there are integrated students in your class, let us know prior to your visit so that we may adapt it to their needs. The visits are adapted to students with any kind of special needs and all educational spaces are accessible.

Information and reservations: Monday to Friday, 9 am to 2 pm

Adults

Guided tours are available for people with different needs:

  • Guided tours with a sign language interpreter for the deaf.
  • Tours for people with intellectual disability.
  • Touch tours for the blind.

Information and reservations: Monday to Friday, 9 am to 2 pm

Observations

The Museum does not have its own visitor parking service; however, access is easy and the tram stops nearby.

If you prefer to use your own vehicle, municipal parking space is available nearby. In addition, the nearby public car park in the Plaza Euskadi also has accessible spaces.

Should you require further information about the best alternative to suit your needs, you can call (+34) 944 359 080 or email información@guggenheim-bilbao.eus

 

Presentation of works

As a museum of modern and contemporary art, certain artistic and conservation norms must be applied. Therefore, inside the galleries there may be certain lighting and signage conditions as well as distances from the artworks that must be kept and may not provide optimum visibility. Similarly, the particular characteristics of each work of art are based on artistic criteria and are therefore inalterable.

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