The student programmes of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum cover the Education System at all levels and are provided as educational tools that make dialogue and reflection possible before works of art. They are also a means by which to develop social skills and stimulate knowledge in students.

In some programmes, students will be accompanied by a museum Educator; in others, it will be the teacher him, or herself, who will guide his, or her, students on the visit. This latter is what happens in the Discover the Museum, First Contact Itineraries, Basic Itineraries and Antique Painting Programmes.

On the other hand, students participating in the Visiting a Workshop Programme for Students with Visual Handicaps or Impediments and their fellow classmates consists of a route that has been specially adapted according to the level of the students. Students will also visit a space in which they can experiment both tactilely and haptically.

  • All Programmes are sponsored by the BBK Foundation and are completely free of charge.
  • Teachers can suggest any subject they would like to address particularly and Department staff will take care of all the rest.
  • Visits can be organised in Euskera (Basque language), Spanish and, hopefully the majority, in English.
  • Teaching sessions will be periodically organised for teachers in which they will be informed about the chosen activity and documented accordingly. Should the teacher be the person accompanying the group as a guide, then he, or she, will be provided with the proper guidelines and methodologies in order to be able to give the visit.

Should you have any queries, require additional information or wish to make a reservation, then please call (+34) 94 439 61 41.



Pre-School and Primary Education

  • Discover the Museum

    Designed as a first approach to the world of museums for infants and primary schoolchildren, Discover the Museum seeks, among other things, to stimulate observation and dialogue and provide a vision of the Museum as a whole.

  • A museum of colours

    What better place than a museum for infant and primary schoolchildren to relate directly to and experiment with colours? And there’s nothing like colour to channel ideas, emotions and feelings in such an enjoyable, natural way.

  • Fantastic creatures

    In the world of art any fantastic being can come to life. In this activity we encourage infant and early primary schoolchildren to discover and have fun with some of the fantastic creatures that live in our museum.

  • Animals in the museum

    You’ll be really surprised to find out just how many animals live in the paintings in the museum. Horses, cats, parrots and lots of others join us on this adventure where infant and early primary schoolchildren can talk about their relations with animals and their different uses.

  • Food in Art

    What colour are cherries? Are apples sweet? Our infant and early primary schoolchildren can talk about these and many other things as they discover the importance of food in our lives while they visit the museum.

  • Water in the Museum

    This is an Itinerary associated with CEIDA’s School Agenda 21 programme for improving environmental education and sustainable development. Schoolchildren from the second and third cycle of primary education learn to appreciate the presence and the importance of water in our lives by means of a guided tour, led by an educator from the Museum, of the main works in our collection.

ESO y Bachillerato

  • Initiation Itinerary

    In clear, simple and motivating terms, the programme invites schoolchildren from ESO obligatory secondary education to attempt a formal analysis of a number of artworks. The visit aims to stimulate dialogue as pupils view works of art and learn and gain experience that will be useful in other art museums.

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  • Waste

    An itinerary associated with CEIDA’s School Agenda 21 programme for improving environmental education and sustainable development. Pupils in ESO and Baccalaureate secondary education are given the opportunity to think about and discuss how a large variety of materials created for a specific use can be reused in art, and with the kind of results seen in a number of artworks in the Museum.

  • Europe in the Bilbao Fine Arts Musem

    Oriented towards pupils in the second cycle of ESO secondary education, always accompanied by an educator from the Museum, this programme examines eight artworks, which are taken as the starting point for a consideration of the history and culture of the peoples of Europe, analyzing relations and some of the major events in their common past.

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Education Educational project

Work carried out by the Department of Education and Cultural Action (DEAC) of the museum is concentrated upon the start-up or activities and programmes aimed at a wide range of ages and interests whose main aim is to encourage and stimulate the knowledge and enjoyment of the museum's Permanent Collection and Temporary Exhibitions.

We share the knowledge of other professionals in the field of museum education and listen to the contributions that members of the general public who participate in our educational project offer. Our end objective is to achieve the proper intermediation between the museum and private interests, generating proposals that make people think of the museum as somewhere that generates valuable experiences of knowledge and learning.