The University Association for the Middle East (AUNOM) organizes every Saturday in Pamplona several activities of volunteer activities with refugees who have arrived in the capital of Navarra. They teach them the language and help them, among other things, to manage their housing. "Professor Santiago Martínez asked me to try to organize some activity at the Museum. Through the ambassadors program, the idea came up of doing a guided visit on a Saturday morning", this is how student Claudia Iturbe organized the activity.

The visit visited all the exhibitions of the Museum, Constellations of the Intangible, the collection of María Josefa Huarte, the pieces of Antoni Tàpies lent by the Fundaciò Tàpies... "Yusef, one of the refugees, asked us all the time about the age of the works", explained Silvia Penco, a student who also attended the visit, "he told us that in Iraq the works of art are at least six thousand years old. Compared to their art, ours is from yesterday...". Teodoro Peñaroja, student from the University and who also accompanied group, reflected on his experience: "We had been to the Museum a thousand times before, but being with people who come from so far away and carry so much on their backs makes you see art through their eyes. You financial aid to approach contemporary art from a different perspective".

For AUNOM, the activity helped them "to take a step forward in the teaching of Spanish and to help refugees disconnect from their status", Claudia Iturbe said, "if possible, we would love to organize more activities at the Museum".

Museum Ambassadors Program

The ambassadors are students of the University of Navarra who disseminate the Museum's artistic programming (exhibitions, performances, public and educational programs) among their peers. All of the University's Schools and Schools are represented by at least one ambassador per year. This initiative began last year and continues this year with a total of 92 ambassadors.