By Oriol López i Badell and Jordi Palou- Loverdos, Memorial Democràtic, Spain Remembering the bombing of Gernika is a useful exercise to analyze the indiscriminate attack on a population that was identified with a particular ideology. It was not important who lived in the city, simply that Gernika was located in an area considered Republican. […]
– By Will Glendinning, Coordinator, Diversity Challenges (Ireland) What connections can there be between the air-raid bombing of Gernika in 1937 and the 31-year long conflict in and about Northern Ireland that ended in 2000? On the face of it, these two histories may seem disparate. Gernika was the bombing of a city by the […]
– By Adrian Kerr, Manager, Museum of Free Derry, Ireland Why do we have to remember events like the bombing of Gernika? Why, 75 years on, is it so important that such events be publicly commemorated rather than just read about in history books? We have to remember it to remind ourselves and everyone else […]
By Monte Sole Peace School Foundation, Italy ORDER OF OPERATION: NUMBER 48 PLACE: SORIA, SPAIN DATE: 26/04/1937, 15 YEARS (of the Fascist era). Thus begins the order by Lieutenant Colonel Umberto Marelli, endorsing the operation to bomb Gernika. But what most don’t realize is that this is an order to the Italian Legionary Air Force, […]
Just over a decade after the attacks of 9-11, we are in the midst of a global war on terror. In Syria, Sudan and many other countries, citizens are under attack. In Europe, xenophobia and discrimination is on the rise and the United States is facing divisive battles around immigration and inequity. In this bleak […]
After several months of inactivity in our blog (How hard is finding time for daily activities, blogging about the Museum, and have something interesting to say) we write a new post. Today, it has not been necessary to squeeze the head to know what to write about, today we feel LUCKY. Today (after the announcement […]
The thousands of kilometers from numerous museums in the world, are not a real distance when there is a coordinated work among them. Example of this claim is that these days an international meeting brings together many specialists, museum curators, museum directors around the world, as in the case of the Gernika Peace Museum, meet […]
All these days without blogging has been due to the intense involvement of the Gernika Peace Museum in the 7th International Conference of Museums for Peace that was hold from 4 to 7 May 2011 in Barcelona (www.museumsforpeace. org) thanks to the hospitality of the Barcelona International Peace Resource Center of the City of Barcelona […]
When we think on museums, it usually come to our mind the museums of Contemporary Art, Fine Arts, Science and History , but many people are surprised to learn that there are peace museums and museums for peace. In Japan, you may not ask these questions so frequently, because the number of Museums for peace […]
The Gernika Peace Museum has been, for many years, working actively and collaborating with many networks (national and international) that address the issues discussed by us, such as Memory (Network of Museums and memory ICOM: IC-MEMO www.ic-memo.org ; Sites of Conscience www.sitesofconscience.org ) Museums and Peace (International Network of Museums for Peace INMP www.museumsforpeace.org ), […]