Conference Speakers: Iratxe Momoitio Astorkia

Posted on 7th October 2014 by Accounts of the Conflict

IRATXE MOMOITIO ASTORKIA

Director of the Gernika Peace Museum

http://www.museodelapaz.org/en/index_en.php

Iratxe_Momoitio_AstorkiaIratxe has been Director of the Gernika Peace Museum (unique peace museum in the Basque Country and Spain) since its creation in the year 1998. She has published several articles about Memory, the bombing of Gernika and the Spanish Civil War, about the importance of Art and Peace and about the Gernika Peace Museum in different books and magazines (from Spain and other countries). She is involved in several International Networks and has been commissioned to participate on an expert group (2012) to design the content and viability of the “Instituto de la Memoria” (Institute of Memory) in the Basque Country.

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