Pamplona,
Ten years have passed since the University of Navarra Museum opened its doors, on the Pamplona campus of that institution: it was inaugurated by the Kings on January 22, 2015, so this next day 23 the Mun will pay tribute to those who made this project possible and It will begin, that same day, a period of gratuity for citizenship that will be maintained during all 2025, with the collaboration of the City of the Navarre capital.
Based in a building designed by Rafael Moneo, his collection started from a background of 1,200 pieces corresponding to donations by José Ortiz Echagüe (in the eighties) and María Josefa Huarte (in 2008); There are currently 25,000 works that make up your collection. Although, as we said, it was a decade ago when the museum received its first visitors, its gestation process had started quite before: in 1993, Rafael Levenfeld and Valentín Vallhonrat began the organization of his collection, a work to which they joined Subsequently, Rafael Llano, José Manuel Garrido and Fernando Pagola, who completed the first artistic direction of this space.
It covers, today this set, photography, painting, sculpture, video installations and works generated through artificial intelligence, but this collection stands out in the first field, that of photography, from birth to the present; The rest of the works, to a large extent, establish links with which it was the germ of this museum, which last September premiered director: Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro.
Until March, Lavenfeld himself exhibits there a selection of his photographs, and until August a great sample reviews those four decades elapsed since his collection began to take shape; Meanwhile, the museum will open this spring its 60th exhibition, dedicated to Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneer for its investigations around the movement of the body, animal and human, in its images.
A good part of the MUN exhibition projects so far have been focused on the production developed by forty artists participating in the program Tell bridges And in various residences, including Carlos Irijalba, Cristina de Middel, Hiraki Sawa, Aitor Ortiz, Daniel Canogar, Juan Ugalde, Manolo Laguillo, Luis González Palma, Joan Fontcuberta, Javier Vallhonrat, Jorge Ribalta, Bleda and Rosa or Jordi Bernardó.

To their near three hundred dates scheduled with the performing arts, approximately 50,000 spectators have come; It should be noted that a part of them have dialogued with the funds or exhibitions of plastic arts, as well as with contributions from historians or philosophers, favoring the relationships between disciplines. In the same way, artistic proposals linked to the contribution of science has been tried to develop; It was the case of Carlos Irijalba, Martí Llorens and Rebecca Mutell. Likewise, teachers of the faculties of this university, such as those of Medicine, Architecture, Law, Pharmacy and Nutrition, Education and Psychology or Communication, have served the collection of the MUN for teaching in some of their subjects and projects. Another of its main training bets is the official master’s degree in commissioning studies, which has so far a hundred graduates in their seven editions.
44 members, approximately half international (from Latin America, the United States, Canada, Poland, Switzerland, Algeria and the United Arab Emirates) are part of their promoter patronage) and the members of their friends association of friends are five hundred. As for the MUN users, who will soon reach the million, highlights the high number of young people, who practically bend to the rest of museums: who are between 15 and 30 years of age constitute 40% of their visitors, surely in relation to their university character.
