An exhibition on Amaiur's democratic memory opens at the Laboratorium museum in Bergara.
From 20 June, the Laboratorium Museum in Bergara will be hosting the exhibition 'Amaiur 1922-1936 Democratic Memory'. It is a temporary exhibition that narrates the historical trajectory of this reference place of memory in our history. It will be in Bergara between June 20 and September 11.
The exhibition is organized by the Laboratorium Museum, the Olaso Tower Foundation and the Bergara City Council, and curated by the Aranzadi Science Society. Representatives of the four entities participated in the presentation made at the laboratorium.
The deputy mayor of Bergara, Ainhoa Lete, has made reference to the social nature of the Museum and the collaboration between the different agents. "At Laboratorium we are used to holding science-related exhibitions and we associate our activity especially with science, innovation and technology, but the museum also goes beyond that, and makes room for our history, art... making many other subjects available to the public through dissemination. In relation to this exhibition, I would also like to highlight the idea of collaboration that we have mentioned on so many other occasions.
The Mayor of Bergara, Gorka Artola, links the exhibition to the work being carried out by Bergara Town Council in the recovery of memory. "We are working to build the Bergara of the future, but to move forward it is essential to look back, to know the history, to recognise it, to recover memory. In Bergara we are working in this sense, among others, with Aranzadi, and now we are going to make room for the history of Euskal Herria through the museum."
The Laboratorium received the proposal for this exhibition through the foundation the Olaso Tower Foundation. Maite Aristegi, member of the Foundation's Board of Trustees, said that "Amaiur is an essential symbol of the Basque narrative, which explains how far we Basques are willing to go in defence of our freedoms. As Lauaxeta said, everything mus be given to the beloved freedom, and that is what the members of the Amaiur battalion did in the Amaiur castle and did again in the war of 1936"
Maite Errarte, from the Aranzadi Science Society, explained the details of the exhibition. She stresses that the construction of the Amaiur monolith or the fact that "a battalion of the Basque Army that is called Amaiur is no coincidence. Amaiur is a space present in our collective imagination and this exhibition aims to go to the roots and to the reason for the formation of that memory. Places of memory emerge between history, truth and myth, from which each of us creates our own narratives obout them."
Amaiur, oroimen gune
Munduko herrialde guztiek dituzte oroimen-lekuak, eta horien inguruan, hainbat arrazoirengatik, era guztietako sentimenduak biltzen dira. Honakoak batzuetan kontrajarriak izaten dira, baina, dena den, herritarren interesa pizten dute. Amaiur leku horietako bat da. Leku historiko batek hainbeste sentimendu sortzen dituenean hartzen ditu, hain zuzen ere, oroimen-leku gisako bere sinbolismo eta dimentsioa.
Erakusketa honen bitartez, XX. mendearen hasieran askatasun demokratikoaren nahiz Errepublikaren defentsan borroka egin zuen belaunaldi batek Amaiur nola ulertzen zuen aurkeztu nahi da, modu sintetiko batean. Belaunaldi honen protagonistak, adibidez, Arturo Campion (1854 – 1937) humanista eta politikoa; Telesforo Monzon (1904 – 1981) idazle eta politikaria; edota Bittori Etxeberria (1908 -1997) politikari eta feminista dira.
Halaber, Gerra Zibilean erresistentzian parte hartu zuen gudarosteetako batek “Amayur” izena jaso zuen, Nafarroako Erreinuaren konkistaren testuinguruan, militarki hobe prestaturiko tropen aurrean, Amaiurko gaztelua eutsi zuen eta erregimen legitimoarekiko leiala izan zen erresistentziaren omenez.
Erakusketa honek erreparazio-keinu apal bat izan nahiko luke, frankismoko altxamendu militarrari aurre egiteko Amaiurko erresistentzia bere egin zuten pertsonen sufrimenduari eta giza eskubideen urraketari aitormena egite aldera. Hura izan baitzen Amaiur oroimen-leku bilakatzea lortu zuen jenerazioa.
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Bisita gidatuak
Uztailean eta abuztuan, 11:00etan eta 12:30ean. Bergarako turismo bulegoak eskaintzen dituen 5 aukerei gehituko zaie, eta unean dauden pertsonek hautatuko dute zein egin. Propio ere eska daitezke aurretik, gainontzeko bisita gidatuak bezala.
