The Museum celebrated its first anniversary since their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain inaugurated the art center a year ago. Nearly 1,000 people visited the building built by Rafael Moneo, which has remained open to the public from 10 am to 10 pm in an open day with two guided tours of the temporary exhibitions, two to the backstage of the theater and one more to the Museum's warehouses.

School programs: The first to arrive were the 1st grade students of the Larraona School to participate in the workshop "Sing, dance, tell and paint". The activity is articulated through the story "The Lonely Musketeer", based on the painting "Musketeer's Head" by Picasso, exhibited in the Museum. The children dressed up as musketeers and played artistic expression games that combine the performing arts and plastic expression.

Event with social entities: The Tantaka Inclusion program of the University of Navarra has delivered at the Museum the internship diplomas to the 15 people with disabilities and users of Cocemfe who have worked from September to December in the different services of the University. The University's Vice Rector for Research, Iciar Astiasarán, is the main promoter and has delivered the diplomas. The program is subsidized by the Government of Navarra and the Caja Navarra Banking Foundation.

Two new PhDs: Two theses from the Faculty of Education and Psychology and the Instituto Empresa y Humanismo were defended in classrooms 1 and 2.

First edition of the creativity workshop for young people from 18 to 25 years old: The university public also attended one of the activities scheduled to celebrate the anniversary. The creativity workshop brought together 26 students from the University of Navarra. Starting from the deep observation of a specific object, each one had to choose the materials and the technique to develop their own work. During the process of artistic creation, the focus was on the creative act and not on the result. This workshop facilitates an introspective process, an inner journey where one discovers one's creative abilities, something that, in many cases, is unknown until that moment. "For an hour and a half there has been an absolute spontaneous silence where everyone has expressed the art that lies within," explained Fernando Echarri, head of the educational area. This first edition has served as a test to evaluate the results and redefine the workshop before launching it to the general public.

Guided tours of the exhibitions: The two guided tours at 12h and 18h have gathered more than 200 people to see the temporary exhibitions of Cristina de Middel, "Man Jayen" and Xavier Ribas, "Nitrate". In addition, about a hundred people were able to see the backstage of the Museum's theater: the dressing room, the dressing rooms, the stage and the orchestra pit.

Projection in the theater: The performing arts have been present with the looped projection in the theater of the most relevant images of the shows programmed last season as well as of the rest of the Museum's areas.                

Discovering the jewels of the collection: Ignacio Miguéliz, head of the curatorial department of Museo Universidad de Navarra, guided fifty people, mostly Friends of the Museum, through the most exclusive and inaccessible area of the building, where the Collection is kept and preserved: the storerooms.

The curator explained the storage system of the 38 combs, designed to conserve large format works. There,he showed some pieces of the curatorial program Tender Puentes, such as those of photographers Roland Fisher and Lynne Cohen. The combs also hold some works from the María Josefa Huarte Collection that are not currently on display, as well as works by artists such as Manrique, Sempere, Burguillos, Tàpies, and Rueda, among many others.

Another part of the storerooms that has also been visited are the compacts, where the bulk of the photography collection is located, with more than 15,000 pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries and small formats from the Tender Puentes Collection. Ignacio Miguéliz explained the versatility of this system, as it combines horizontal and vertical shelves and shelves arranged in different formats.

The Museum has shown its appreciation to all visitors with a commemorative anniversary gift.