Breathe the art of the north

The alliance between the MUN (Museo Universidad de Navarra, in Pamplona), Centro Botín (Santander), Chillida Leku (Hernani, Guipúzcoa) and the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao promotes the contemplation and enjoyment of their art collections, exhibitions and activities. To this end, they have designed a shared ticket and other advantages.

Thus, each space applies a 20% discount on the entrance for visitors who show an entrance from one of the other spaces. This price reduction is extended to 30% in the case of Friends of the collaborating centers. Given that throughout 2025 the entrance to the MUN is free to all visitors on the occasion of its tenth anniversary (thanks to the partnership of the Pamplona City Council), this year the MUN is offering visitors a book as a gift, to choose from its extensive collection of publications.

In addition, the entities collaborate in the dissemination of their proposals. This is evidenced by the new series of reels for Instagram , consisting of three short videos produced by the MUN, which premieres today on the social network profiles of the four spaces, highlighting the differences and the essence of each of them to emphasize that they are all complementary and attractive, each according to its location, nature and mission statement.

The Botín Center is an international art center whose mission statement is to promote creativity through the arts in order to generate economic, social and cultural development . Its program "Arts, Emotions and Creativity", based on the research developed for more than 13 years with the Yale University Center for Emotional Intelligence, is composed of artistic and cultural activities that awaken the curiosity, imagination and creativity of the public, encouraging play and learning through the arts. The Center is part of the daily life of citizens and contributes to strengthening the local social and cultural fabric.

For more than two decades, Chillida Leku has represented the living report of one of the most international Basque artists. Its goal is to generate alliances and collaborative projects to disseminate Eduardo Chillida's artistic bequest and establish an enriching dialogue with the sculptor's contemporary artists through a quality exhibition, educational and cultural program. "It is essential to weave partnership ties in a territory with such artistic wealth, where we find a public increasingly interested in participating in cultural life," explains the director of the center, Mireia Massagué, regarding the agreement .

For its part, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, which is still open to the public, will inaugurate in 2026 the extension designed by Norman Foster and Luis Mari Uriarte, currently under construction. "In this way, it will renew the vitality of a century-old institution that aspires to contribute decisively to the cultural fabric of the territory and of a wider network region of which we are already a part," says its director, Miguel Zugaza.

The director of the Museo Universidad de Navarra, Jaime García del Barrio, makes a very positive evaluation of this network of cultural centers in the north, since "it facilitates the entrance of new audiences, in line with the mission statement of the MUN to promote artistic knowledge dissemination and, in the future, we also aspire to generate synergies between such diverse collections and exhibitions, thus enriching the experience of the viewer," he ventures.