The University of Navarra Museum is an international center of public interest for reflection and artistic creation, with an interdisciplinary, research, teaching, and social focus.
As part of the University of Navarra, the Museum shares its vision, mission, and values. In the words of the rector, it is "a space for learning."
An open, vibrant space that brings together teaching, research, creation, and dissemination of contemporary art. The Museum's collection is a living heritage that grows and inspires today's society. At the Museum, different artistic disciplines work together, engage in dialogue, and enrich each other, while also seeking mutual enrichment with the University's teaching and research community.
With proposals tailored to each audience—schoolchildren, families, seniors, people of all ages and with diverse needs, who experience art in very different ways—the Museum is a place where they can approach art in its capacity to improve life, make it meaningful, and create connections.
The Artistic Project
The University of Navarra Museum is a center for artistic creation projects that generate reflection and knowledge. It does all this within the framework of a university, with artistic lines that are defined conceptually and/or methodologically.
The Museum's collection is the cornerstone of the project, attesting to the role of artistic and documentary practices in shaping the image of the world and its development from the Enlightenment to the present day. With this in mind, the Museum's artistic team has established five areas of focus:
1. Art and the construction of our image of the world.
2. Projects from the collection itself
3. Contemporary creation and cultural heritage
4. Dialogue between disciplines: plastic and visual arts & performing arts
5. Reflection on creative processes
Research
and Creation
Born in the heart of an academic center, the Museum is surrounded by a multitude of areas of knowledge. From its multidisciplinary approach to art, it promotes research on the arts, for the arts, and in the arts. It structures artistic creation and research projects through Artist Residencies and shares knowledge and resources with the academic community in joint projects.
Museum
on Campus
As part of the University, the Museum is aligned with teaching and research activities. Teaching, support for educational work, promotion of research, and development of mediation systems are evidence of its university identity. Its presence provides spaces and new resources of quality and impact on learning. In addition to its own academic program (the Master's Degree in Curatorial Studies), the Museum hosts learning activities for young university students under the Creative Campus label and designs programs in collaboration with other professionals from the academic, school, and social spheres.
Encounter with contemporary art
As a university center serving the whole of society, the Museum aims to be a place where people can encounter contemporary art. It seeks to encourage people to establish a relationship with art and enjoy meaningful experiences that contribute to a more humane, critical, and free understanding of the world. With this objective in mind, it designs a program that reflects its interdisciplinary nature and its commitment to research and teaching. A program that aims to serve a wide variety of communities, people of all ages with diverse passions and needs, with different ways of understanding and experiencing art from an inclusive perspective.