MUN ends its commemorative year with twice as many visitors and the award for excellence and innovation in university museums

The eight exhibitions presented at the University of Navarra Museum during 2025 received a total of 197,424 visitors, representing an increase of 118.7% over the previous year, which recorded 90,275 visitors. "University of Navarra Museum Collection, Four Decades," "Rafael Levenfeld. Photographer," "Eadweard Muybridge," "Dear Viewer, What Are You Looking At?," "Abstraction and Modernity," and "Other Fears" by Antoni Muntadas were the exhibitions featured during the commemorative year. In addition, with the aim of bringing the museum closer to all audiences and making it more accessible, this year entrance was offered as a gift to the public, an initiative that was partnership Pamplona City Council. This more intense program and free entrance be reasons for the increased attendance at the MUN.

On the other hand, the MUN has just received the award best university project at the ICOM congress , held in November in Dubai, for "Arts & Life," which presents the transfer of research training palliative medicine through art and the MUN collection. The staff of research palliative research group research the University of Navarra, the group , were the actors and actresses who brought to life the play entitled "Cicely and David," a core element of project. ATLANTES seeks to foster a positive mindset toward the care of patients with advanced and irreversible diseases. Through its programs of study training knowledge dissemination activities, it promotes respect for human dignity and comprehensive professional care, including emotional and spiritual aspects in times of serious illness or at the end of life. More than 1,200 spectators have seen performances of this play, at its premiere in Pamplona (MUN and Civivox), and at performances in Malaga (within the framework congress XIV congress of the Spanish Society for Palliative Care), in Toronto (Canada), in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), and in Mallorca (Es Baluard).

This new award joins those previously won by the MUN:
- award innovation, design sustainability of the museum shop (2024) by the Culture & Museums International Tech Forum in Malaga.
- Best fundraising campaign (2023), bronze medal worldwide, awarded by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the world's leading association .
- Best museum of the year in Europe (2018), according to the European Museum Forum of committee Europe.
- award design award (2016), best museum signage, SILVER.

Some notable milestones during these ten years have been the inauguration of a total of 63 exhibitions; nearly 350 performing arts and music shows and activities programmed; the eighth graduating class of Master's Degree in programs of study ; 90 artist residencies ; 43 members on its board of trustees; and 497 Friends of the Museum, 88% of whom are from Navarre, in addition to three new international additions during the year: iSiMAR, Audi Iruñamovil, and ATValor. In addition, over the last ten years, a total of 40 social entities have joined the MUN, participating in the sociARTE program, as a proposal intervention through art in the educational field.

In addition, during 2025, the MUN collection has been exhibited in different cities in Spain: the work of photographer José Ortiz Echagüe was exhibited at the Casa de los Tiros museum in Granada; Miguel Bergasa's exhibition at the Alcobendas Art Center; and the sample "El sueño de la razón. From the Age of Enlightenment to Artificial Intelligence" at the Fundación Telefónica space, exhibition will remain open in the capital's downtown area until April 2026 and has already attracted more than 30,000 visitors.

The MUN has also had an impact beyond its building. data on its digital audience shows thatsearches for the MUN and visits to its website have increased by23% this year. issue followers on social media has grown, particularly Instagram, where 1,296 of the current 14,112 followers are new this year. In turn, posts on this network have reached more than half a million users.

These figures and achievements demonstrate that the commemorative year has had a major impact and, more importantly, show that young people, the university community, and the general public are increasingly turning to the MUN for the appreciation and enjoyment of art.