Museum with kids?? Yes, you can! Family fun at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain

Getting creative in front of the Guggenheim Museum of Contemporary Art in Bilbao, Spain (backtracking a bit, as we did not have the time to post this). Visiting a museum with kids can be fun! We try to expose our kiddos to as many different positive experiences as possible, which includes the places that we would like to see ourselves.

musical street performance art in front of the museum

The kids did enjoy certain installations inside the museum. Mostly those they could somehow engage with or run within! However, make sure you don’t spend too much time contemplating one piece of art, as you probably have an hour before the screaming kicks in. I must say, the kids did enjoy themselves (an ice-cream break was also helpful🍦).

This museum allows you to get out and back in as many times as you want during a day, which gives you much more flexibility.

There is a fantastic playground in front of the museum. It worked for our kids as an incentive to let us see the exhibitions.

Not that we understand art, even less so contemporary art. Nevertheless, one of the exposition of Jenny Holzer’s “Thing Undescribable” made a profound impression on us. Probably because her art is about words which we can understand😉

Kids’ space. “**This is your space.** Draw your itinerary. Read a story. Complete it with magnets. Build your city. Play and dream, imagine and create it.”

No picture taking was allowed unfortunately, but just to give you an idea, she puts together statements that are provocative and very harsh at times regarding contentious issues (e.g. war, violence, politics).

“Do Androids dream of electric sheep?” Laser light shows for the Jedi Masters in training.

Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe painting is there too. Hey, I am just pretending to know something about art here. You and your little ones will enjoy this place though!

Bubble art show. Amazing how a little soap, water and a lot of children’s creativity can make a happy day. . . for the kids that is. . . Ok, OK, for us parents too!!!

Playground right across from the museum makes a full day at the Gugenheim museum easy.

Ice cream, street style, to top it all off.

And that was our day at the Gugenheim Museum.

NEXT STOP

Climbing the highest sand dunes in Europe, Dune du Pilat, close to Bordeaux, France on days 9 and 10 of our family camping road trip across Europe.

LAST STOP

In Pictures: Potes and Monastery of Saint Toribio in Cantabria (Day 6): An unplanned stop at a historic mountain monastery and pilgrimage site that holds a piece of the cross of Christ (Monasterio de Santo Toribio de Liebana) and a strategic ancient Roman town (Potes) where two rivers and four valleys meet that is also known for its deliciously potent grape brandy, Orujo.

In Pictures: Gray Day at the Peaks of Europe (Los Picos de Europa). . . with Kids (Day 5) in the mountains of Cantabria and Asturia in northern Spain. They say, these mountain peaks were the first sign of Europe that people travelling on ships from America would see