Museo Arqueológico, Etnográfico e Histórico Vasco — Attraction in Bilbao

A most authentic, informative, spectacular and child friendly museum in a historic building with lot of original objects. Most information given in English, but the museum is absolutely not text heavy. It gives a substantial overview of history and everyday life of this remote but great corner of Spain i. e. Country Basque. A good mixture of history, archeology, anthropology, fishery, traditional food, rural life etc. The museum has 3 floors and a ground floor to visit. Very easily accessible for wheel chair users. Quiet atmosphere, professional and attentive staff. Restrooms are available...

Disappointment. I was excited to learn about Basque history, especially 20th century history. I left empty. Cultural exhibits are the only window presented to understand Basque Country. I’d have really loved to have known what I was looking at, but with no English anywhere, using a translation tool every time makes me dizzy. No numbers on exhibits or captions so I’m guessing even with paper translation this would be onerous to follow. My takeaway is they're a proud people, proud of their way of life. I just wish they made that story more accessible to foreigners so we could celebrate...

FREE Entry on Thursdays. Very nice Basque museum. It would be lots better if there were other languages on the detail plaques on the exhibits. Instead there are some sporadic leaflets that are dotted around. The time we spent here was cut short because of that, otherwise we would have stayed a lot longer. There is a fantastic model of Bizkaia so you can see the entire region on a large scale, it's just a shame that for a non-basque-spanish speaker there were no accessible information by the exhibits. Glad it...