Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
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.
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| Established | 1914 |
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| Location | Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain |
| Coordinates | 43°15′57.56″N 2°56′16.14″W |
| Type | Art museum, Provincial museum |
| Collection size | 10,000 items, 600 part of the exhibition |
| Visitors | 150 721 (2022) |
| Director | Miguel Zugaza |
| Public transit access | Moyua Station (Metro Bilbao) Abandoibarra, Guggenheim (Bilbao tram) |
| Website | museobilbao |
It is the second largest and most visited museum in the Basque Country, after the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum and one of the richest Spanish museums outside Madrid. 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.