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Basque Museum & Cultural Center

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Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Basque Museum & Cultural Center
Phone:
+1 208-343-2671

Hours:
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 4pm
Wednesday10am - 4pm
Thursday10am - 4pm
Friday10am - 4pm
Saturday11am - 3pm


Basque centers are associative organizations that appeared in the end of the 19th century in cities that have really an important presence of Basque emigration, with the purpose of helping each other and keeping links with Basque culture and homeland. They are also meeting points for the Basque people who live all around the world far away from their land. Their objective is to recover documents concerning the history of Basque exile and migration by means of research, digitalization, photographs and oral testimonies. There are more than 150 Basque Centers built all around the world. Most of them are in Argentina , near Buenos Aires. In fact, 10% of the population has a Basque origin. Juan de Garay Foundation, works hard with this community. They do genealogical research among other things. The United States of America are in the second place of the list, having more than 30 centers, and NABO organization coordinates all of them since 1973. In 2000, in the United States, there were 57,793 Basque origin people registered: 20,868 in California, 6,637 in Idaho, 6,096 in Nevada, 2,665 in Washington and 2,627 in Oregon. There are ten Basque centers in Spain and two in France. Apart from the Basque centers, there also exist several organizations and associations all around the world related to the Basque Diaspora. Among the most important ones, the Center for Basque Studies research area in Reno.
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