Museum of San Telmo in Donostia-San Sebastian to reopen on Monday

The Museum of San Telmo in Donostia-San Sebastian will officially reopen at 12am on Monday.

Due to the continuing work as part of its renovation and expansion project, The Museum of San Telmo has remained closed to the public for five years. Thus, the historical building has been restored and also an enlargement has been made by Nieto Sobejano Architects.

The event will be attended by the mayor of Donostia-San Sebastian Odon Elorza, Minister of Culture of the Basque Government Blanca Urgell, deputy general of Gipuzkoa Markel Olano and, government delegate in Gipuzkoa Mikel Cabieces.

The Museum of San Telmo is situated inside a beautiful Dominican convent of the XVI century, right in the heart of the old town. The museum keeps magnificent collections of Basque art, funerary relics, prehistoric Basque artifacts, dinosaur skeletons, and more recent anthropological exhibits. Especially impressive is the converted church, hung with monumental tapestries of Basque traditions like whaling and navigation in Republican style.

The museum is divided into three sections (Fine Art, History and Archaeology), with exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings, weapons, medals, coins, ceramics, musical instruments, photographs, pre-Columbine artefacts, religious precious metalwork... It is a highly heterogeneous collection that shows the evolution of social life in the Basque Country over the ages. Furthermore, you can also see tombstones, baptismal fonts, canvasses by artists such as El Greco, Alonso Cano, Rubens and Depièce, along with works by contemporary Basque artists.

6 Billion Others will be the first exhibition displayed in the new museum. 6 Billion Others is a project by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The goal is provide a portrait of the planet''s humanity, their universality and individuality. To draw a portrait of contemporary mankind he asks questions about universal values and life: What is happiness? Are we facing the same problems? What lessons can we learn from life''s difficulties? What''s the meaning of life?