San Telmo Museoa

San Telmo Museoa, or STM is a Basque society museum placed in Donostia-San Sebastian, addressing antique and modern Basque way of life, arts and records in a European, worldwide context. Since 1932, it's far located on the Zuloaga plaza inside the vintage city, on the foot of the hill Urgull. San Telmo is provided as a museum and, on the equal time, a place to disseminate information and create idea; it's miles an device to recognize the existing and build the future from encounters with the past and with our roots. In 2011, a first-rate makeover of its facilities occurred by using adding an extension to the convent and reshaping its centers along the lines of its new conceptual approach as a museum of the Basque society and citizenship.

The museum obtained a Special Mention within the 2013 fine European museum contest organized annually through the Museum Forum. The Basque Society of Friends of the Country showed an interest in commencing a museum for the town following the achievement acquired by using the exhibitions organized within the town during the past due 19th century, so the society addressed a formal request to the Municipal Council to determined a Municipal Museum. At the moment of its status quo in 1902, the San Telmo Museoa changed into located at the nook among calle Andia and Garibai, but it quickly have become too small to keep its series, so in 1905 a new vicinity turned into selected in a new constructing, shared with the Municipal Library and the School of Arts and Professions.