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Kids coming to the Museum this Christmas will get a game at the Admissions desk with creative activities leading them to the artworks in the galleries. Each family can play the game at their own pace, exploring the connections between art, Christmas, and water.
Ages: 3–12 
Language: Spanish, Basque 
Subject to availability

Kids coming to the Museum this Christmas will get a game at the Admissions desk with creative activities leading them to the artworks in the galleries. Each family can play the game at their own pace, exploring the connections between art, Christmas, and water.

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Christmas Workshops: Water, a Source of Inspiration (ages 3–5)gua, fuente de inspiración 

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In these workshops, we will look to water as a source of inspiration, learning, and fun, and as a tool in the creative process. The workshops consist of fun activities exploring the connections between art, Christmas, and water.
In the artworks we will see, water is used as subject or technique. Hilma af Klint, for instance, used the wet-on-wet painting medium in some of her works, applying layers of wet paint on previous wet layers of paint. Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculptures, including the one in the Museum, are made entirely of water.
The workshops have been designed to raise awareness of the importance of water and show how to care for it, while encouraging reflection on the feelings associated with water and Christmas. This will then be used in the creation of works of art where colors flow and mix freely or where water appears in various states, including solid state, as in snow.
Conducted by: Mónica Rodríguez-Curiel, Mónica Martínez, Andere Etxegarai, Maider Ugarte
December 26, 30; January 3: Basque (ages 3–5) 
December 27; Spanish (ages 3–5) 
January 2: Spanish (ages 3–5), Basque (ages 3–5)
Duration: 90 min. 
Languages: Basque and Spanish 
Limited number of places available

Christmas Workshops: Water, a Source of Inspiration (ages 3–5)

In these workshops, we will look to water as a source of inspiration, learning, and fun, and as a tool in the creative process. The workshops consist of fun activities exploring the connections between art, Christmas, and water.

Christmas Workshops: Water, a Source of Inspiration (ages 3–5) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Christmas Workshops: Water, a Source of Inspiration (ages 6–10)

In these workshops, we will look to water as a source of inspiration, learning, and fun, and as a tool in the creative process. The workshops consist of fun activities exploring the connections between art, Christmas, and water.
In the artworks we will see, water is used as subject or technique. Hilma af Klint, for instance, used the wet-on-wet painting medium in some of her works, applying layers of wet paint on previous wet layers of paint. Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculptures, including the one in the Museum, are made entirely of water.
The workshops have been designed to raise awareness of the importance of water and show how to care for it, while encouraging reflection on the feelings associated with water and Christmas. This will then be used in the creation of works of art where colors flow and mix freely or where water appears in various states, including solid state, as in snow.
Conducted by: Mónica Rodríguez-Curiel, Mónica Martínez, Andere Etxegarai, Maider Ugarte
December 26, 30; January 3: Spanish (ages 6–10) 
December 27; Basque (ages 6–10)
Duration: 90 min. 
Languages: Basque and Spanish 
Limited number of places available

Christmas Workshops: Water, a Source of Inspiration (ages 6–10) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Children's Show SÓ

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Children will love this show that merges circus and puppetry. The multidisciplinary artist Jesús Velasco Otero, trained as a juggler and clown, created the Galician company Xampatito Pato and this multi-award winning project, Só, which treats audiences to a playful and relaxed experience. His goal is to encourage us to leave all our cares behind to enjoy beauty and love, surrendering to emotion. What if, in a world full of rectangular boxes, a sphere suddenly appears? This unusual event breaks the monotony of our day to day and opens the door to curiosity…
Estimated duration: 45 min 
No text, suitable for ages 5+
*Activity subject to change

Children will love this show that merges circus and puppetry. The multidisciplinary artist Jesús Velasco Otero, trained as a juggler and clown

Children&#039;s Show SÓ | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Children's Show SÓ | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Books Alive! Hide and Seek 

Did you know? Paul Pfeiffer is an artist who transforms pictures of sports stars and other heroes in unexpected ways, by erasing, altering, and recasting some of their elements. Following in his footsteps, you will manipulate your images to create unique characters. Then, you will draw imaginary worlds where these characters could camouflage and hide.
This month in Books Alive, we will play with images, making them stand out or lie low to tell original stories. Come join us in this world of creativity and magic!
Conducted by: Mónica Rodríguez-Curiel 
Duration: 120 min. 
Ages: 3–5 
Language: English 
Limited number of places available

Books Alive! Hide and Seek (Ages: 3–5)

Did you know? Paul Pfeiffer is an artist who transforms pictures of sports stars and other heroes in unexpected ways, by erasing, altering, and recasting some of their elements.

Books Alive! Hide and Seek (Ages: 3–5) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Art Adventures: Hidden Beauty

Looking at the work of Hilma af Klint, we will see how colors and shapes can express things that are invisible to the naked eye, such as ideas and feelings. We will explore af Klint’s magical world, finding inspiration in her unusual forms and colors. Letting our imagination run wild, we will make a large-scale painting, trying a variety of painting techniques. After choosing from abstract drawings, curved and straight lines, we will apply the wet-on-wet method to see how colors flow and blend, bringing about spellbinding transitions between different hues and forms. Creativity without limits!
Conducted by: Aitziber Aguirre, Andere Etxegarai, Mertxe Periz, Mónica Rodríguez-Curiel
January 11, 19, 25: Spanish 
January 12, 18, 26: Basque
Duration: 90 min. 
Ages: 3–5 
Languages: Spanish, Basque 
Limited number of places available

Looking at the work of Hilma af Klint, we will see how colors and shapes can express things that are invisible to the naked eye, such as ideas and feelings.

Art Adventures: Hidden Beauty | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Baby Art

This month, in Baby Art, we will focus on body movement as an art medium, using our bodies and their dynamic potential for creation – rolling, jumping, sliding, dancing… In so doing, we will bring two different visual languages – body movement and art – together. A space of stimuli and games, Baby Art encourages babies and their families to interact as they explore the galleries of the Museum.
Walking around Richard Serra’s giant sculptures in The Matter of Time can be a unique experience. Using color ribbons, we will paint in the air as we explore Serra’s installation.
In this action-oriented, experimental workshop, we will use both slow-motion and energetic strokes to show movement with color on paper. Our moving bodies will fill the space with color as we carry objects dripping with paint with us, leaving our pigment-loaded marks on the floor and the walls, and rolling colorful balls to be mesmerized by their trail.
January 11, 12: 12–24 months (Spanish) 
January 18, 19: 6–12 months (Basque) 
January 25, 26: 24–36 months (Spanish)
Conducted by: Aitziber Aguirre, Mertxe Periz, Mónica Rodríguez-Curiel 
Duration: 120 min. 
Ages: 6–36 months 
Limited number of places available

This month, in Baby Art, we will focus on body movement as an art medium, using our bodies and their dynamic potential for creation – rolling, jumping, sliding, dancing…

Baby Art | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Creative Lab: Symbolic Forms

Take a look at the fascinating work of Hilma af Klint, a pioneer of abstraction. When Hilma created her paintings, about a hundred years ago, they looked like nothing people had seen before. It took several years for others to take similar steps in order to break away from figurative art. In a tour of her exhibition, we will compare and contrast af Klint’s figurative and abstract works.
Once we get familiar with af Klint’s forms and symbols, we will use them as a source of inspiration to create our own, starting with basic geometric shapes like squares, circles, triangles, or spirals and then moving on to more organic forms. Afterwards, we will discuss the symbols chosen and think of the title for a collaborative work of art.
Conducted by: Mertxe Periz 
Duration: 90 min. 
Ages: 6–10 
Language: Spanish 
Limited number of places available

Take a look at the fascinating work of Hilma af Klint, a pioneer of abstraction. When Hilma created her paintings, about a hundred years ago, they looked like nothing people had seen before.

Creative Lab: Symbolic Forms | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Books Alive! School of Wizards

In the exhibition Hilma af Klint, we will find the mysterious symbols that hint at the artist’s connection to the supernatural and the magical world. And we will become students at the School of Wizardry, in an effort to understand the cryptic language behind these symbols.
In this fun activity, we will meet a series of charming witches—both as characters and for real! Also, we will witness spells and charms, potions included. Finally, we will make our own hats—an item no magician can do without.
Conducted by: Catalina Martínez-Moro 
Duration: 120 min. 
Ages: 3–5 
Language: English 
Limited number of places available

Books Alive! School of Wizards (Ages: 3–5)

In the exhibition Hilma af Klint, we will find the mysterious symbols that hint at the artist’s connection to the supernatural and the magical world.

Books Alive! School of Wizards (Ages: 3–5) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Sensory Play: Feel, Play, Create

Inspired by the works of Yayoi Kusama, these sensory workshops will stimulate your senses and raise your self-awareness by resorting to play. Activities involve the use of touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing, as well as body movement.
This month, we will go beyond the visible, led by this Japanese artist and her fascinating works. Her playful, magic forms will take us across space and time on a journey for children and for everyone’s inner child.
Let your senses guide you in this journey through play, movement, and creation as you handle a wide range of materials. This workshop invites you to experience new sensations in your body and connect to what you feel by letting your creativity, spontaneity, wonder, and fun come to the surface.
Conducted by: Eliezer Ruiz
10:15 am: Children ages 3–5 (1 group)
Duration: 90 min. 
Languages: Basque and Spanish 
Limited number of places available

Sensory Play: Feel, Play, Create (Ages 3–5)

Inspired by the works of Yayoi Kusama, these sensory workshops will stimulate your senses and raise your self-awareness by resorting to play.

Sensory Play: Feel, Play, Create (Ages 3–5) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Sensory Play: Feel, Play, Create (Ages 6–10)

Inspired by the works of Yayoi Kusama, these sensory workshops will stimulate your senses and raise your self-awareness by resorting to play. Activities involve the use of touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing, as well as body movement.
This month, we will go beyond the visible, led by this Japanese artist and her fascinating works. Her playful, magic forms will take us across space and time on a journey for children and for everyone’s inner child.
Let your senses guide you in this journey through play, movement, and creation as you handle a wide range of materials. This workshop invites you to experience new sensations in your body and connect to what you feel by letting your creativity, spontaneity, wonder, and fun come to the surface.
Conducted by: Eliezer Ruiz
12:15 noon: Children ages 6–10 (1 group)
Duration: 90 min. 
Languages: Basque and Spanish 
Limited number of places available

Sensory Play: Feel, Play, Create (Ages 6–10) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Course in Digital Imaging: Learning to Look

In this course, you will learn how to tell stories using digital images, engaging in an active and creative use of photography. In addition, you will develop a critical look at the constant presence of images in modern society and expand the ways in which reality can be seen.
You will be encouraged to work in groups when planning your images, coming up with creative solutions for your assignments and resorting to experimentation, creativity, and play. In search of inspiration, you will visit the Museum’s exhibitions, as well as the works in the Museum Collection.
You are welcome to bring your mobile phone or tablet along to take pictures. If you cannot bring your own device, you will get a camera from us. To sign up for this course, a parent or guardian must sign a form authorizing picture taking during the workshops.
The course is conceived of as a series of progressive workshops to unfold throughout the year.
January 19: Overlapping Images
What happens when you place an image on top of another? Play with silhouette, color, and transparency – magic tools for images to tell stories.
January 26: Filtering Reality
If you could change what you see – the real things that surround you – by adding filters to reality, how would you change the world around you?
February 2: Images Coming to Life
Using animation and video to add movement to images. Just design a step-by-step sequence and your ideas will dance before your eyes!
February 9: Playing with Light for Magical Effects
Let’s manipulate light and shadow to create effects on the objects appearing on our pictures. That is the magic of light: it changes the whole picture!
February 16: How Do We Look at Things?
Using framing to create in-focus or out-of-focus images – and finding different ways of looking at the same room. The way we look at things can change our perception of them. Expanding our point of view to transform the way we see reality and find new meanings.
February 23: One Picture, Many Stories
If you had to send a message in a bottle using a picture, what picture would you choose? What story would you like your picture to tell?
Conducted by: Borja Gómez, Aitziber Aguirre
Duration: 90 min. 
Ages: 9–12 
Languages: Spanish and Basque 
Limited number of places available

In this course, you will learn how to tell stories using digital images, engaging in an active and creative use of photography.

Course in Digital Imaging: Learning to Look | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Family Yoga

Inspired by Eduardo Chillida’s How Profound Is the Air, in this yoga class we will explore the magic of breathing. Aimed at the whole family, these classes use art and yoga poses to play, share, and connect.
Art can help us all — kids and adults alike — attain wellbeing, improve our quality of life, and develop our emotional intelligence. This activity will give the little ones, and the grown-ups with them, the chance to connect to their creative essence as they explore conscious movement.
Conducted by: Eliezer Ruiz 
Duration: 90 min. 
Ages: 6–10 
Languages: Spanish and Basque 
No experience required 
Limited number of places available

Inspired by Eduardo Chillida’s How Profound Is the Air, in this yoga class we will explore the magic of breathing.

Family Yoga | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Drawing for Beginners: That Which Cannot Be Seen

In this part of the course, we will face a new challenge: drawing what cannot be seen, for drawing can render things without an image visible.
We will take a look at different types of drawing, at the drawing techniques used by artists and the purposes of drawing. We will play games to capture lights, shadows, and sounds in our drawings as we try different points of view. We will also learn a variety of drawing techniques – charcoal, crayon, India ink –, as well as different drawing surfaces.
Conceived of as a series of progressive workshops focusing on different concepts and methods, the course encourages participants to enjoy art by making art, suggesting a closer, proactive look at artwork.
January 25: Perspectives – Where Do We Look at Things from?
Different ways of representing space and our place in it.
February 1: Zooming In
Imagining what lies beyond the canvas in a painting.
February 8: Mysterious Shadows
The effects of shadows and the use of chiaroscuro to suggest volume. Shadows and silhouettes as powerful allies.
February 15: Looking at Music, Listening to Drawing
The possibilities of gesture and stroke as guided by sound.
February 22: Ghost Drawing
Drawing techniques leading to unexpected images: white on white, spilled ink, etc.
March 1: Drawing Light
How to capture light on paper? How to represent brightness? Lights and shadows as essential tools to show depth and volume. Bringing our drawings to life!
Conducted by: Raúl Domínguez Pazo, Mónica Martínez
Duration: 90 min. 
Ages: 6–10 
Language: Spanish 
Limited number of places available

In this part of the course, we will face a new challenge: drawing what cannot be seen, for drawing can render things without an image visible.

Drawing for Beginners: That Which Cannot Be Seen | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Play Experiences: Playing with Spare Parts 

In this free play session, inspired by Hilma af Klint’s oeuvre, you will use spare parts to delve into a hands-on exploration of abstract art.
What can you find in this room? A series of art installations made with various objects, which you can handle to plunge into creation in an intuitive way, discovering the hidden possibilities of shapes and materials. Using spare parts, both big and small, that make circles, ovals, lines, triangles, spirals, and the list goes on, you will be able to portray your invisible world in this free, non-directive play activity.
Wonder, an emotion often aroused by art, will be the common thread in this activity using spare-part installations, feeding on the human tendency to manipulate variables, and kindling curiosity with answers to the ever-renewing question “What if…?”. In other words, this play experience encourages you to give free rein to your imagination, empowered by the stimulating environment provided by the Museum.
This activity is meant to be ephemeral, happening in the here and now, without materializing into something permanent, inviting you to explore and create at your own pace as you partake in the global excitement spurred by the game.
Conducted by: VACA rules!
10:15 am: Children ages 3–5 (1 group)
Duration: 90 min. 
Language: Spanish 
Limited number of places available

Play Experiences: Playing with Spare Parts (Ages 3–5)

In this free play session, inspired by Hilma af Klint’s oeuvre, you will use spare parts to delve into a hands-on exploration of abstract art.

Play Experiences: Playing with Spare Parts (Ages 3–5) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Play Experiences: Playing with Spare Parts (Ages 6–10)

In this free play session, inspired by Hilma af Klint’s oeuvre, you will use spare parts to delve into a hands-on exploration of abstract art.
What can you find in this room? A series of art installations made with various objects, which you can handle to plunge into creation in an intuitive way, discovering the hidden possibilities of shapes and materials. Using spare parts, both big and small, that make circles, ovals, lines, triangles, spirals, and the list goes on, you will be able to portray your invisible world in this free, non-directive play activity.
Wonder, an emotion often aroused by art, will be the common thread in this activity using spare-part installations, feeding on the human tendency to manipulate variables, and kindling curiosity with answers to the ever-renewing question “What if…?”. In other words, this play experience encourages you to give free rein to your imagination, empowered by the stimulating environment provided by the Museum.
This activity is meant to be ephemeral, happening in the here and now, without materializing into something permanent, inviting you to explore and create at your own pace as you partake in the global excitement spurred by the game.
Conducted by: VACA rules!
12:15 noon: Children ages 6–10 (1 group)
Duration: 90 min. 
Language: Spanish 
Limited number of places available

Play Experiences: Playing with Spare Parts (Ages 6–10) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

In this part of the course, we will face a new challenge: drawing what cannot be seen, for drawing can render things without an image visible.
We will take a look at different types of drawing, at the drawing techniques used by artists and the purposes of drawing. We will play games to capture lights, shadows, and sounds in our drawings as we try different points of view. We will also learn a variety of drawing techniques – charcoal, crayon, India ink –, as well as different drawing surfaces.
Conceived of as a series of progressive workshops focusing on different concepts and methods, the course encourages participants to enjoy art by making art, suggesting a closer, proactive look at artwork.
January 26: Perspectives – Where Do We Look at Things from?
Different ways of representing space and our place in it.
February 2: Zooming In
Imagining what lies beyond the canvas in a painting.
February 9: Mysterious Shadows
The effects of shadows and the use of chiaroscuro to suggest volume. Shadows and silhouettes as powerful allies.
February 16: Looking at Music, Listening to Drawing
The possibilities of gesture and stroke as guided by sound.
February 23: Ghost Drawing
Drawing techniques leading to unexpected images: white on white, spilled ink, etc.
March 2: Drawing Light
How to capture light on paper? How to represent brightness? Lights and shadows as essential tools to show depth and volume. Bringing our drawings to life!
Conducted by: Raúl Domínguez Pazo, Mónica Martínez
Duration: 90 min. 
Ages: 6–10 
Language: Spanish 
Limited number of places available

In the exhibition Hilma af Klint, we will find the mysterious symbols that hint at the artist’s connection to the supernatural and the magical world. And we will become students at the School of Wizardry, in an effort to understand the cryptic language behind these symbols.
In this fun activity, we will meet a series of charming witches—both as characters and for real! Also, we will witness spells and charms, potions included. Finally, we will make our own hats—an item no magician can do without.
Conducted by: Catalina Martínez-Moro 
Duration: 120 min. 
Ages: 6–10 
Language: English 
Limited number of places available

Books Alive! School of Wizards (Ages: 6–10)

Books Alive! School of Wizards (Ages: 6–10) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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