The Society of Friends of the Basque Museum promotes patronage in two ways.
– By collecting or purchasing works of art and objects to give to the Museum. In fact, it was donations from Basque and Bayonne families that originally constituted the first collections exhibited at the Museum.
– By promoting fundraising to purchase works of art and objects.

You can become a patron of the Musée Basque et de l’histoire de Bayonne by making a financial donation.
To make a donation in kind, or for any other question relating to sponsorship, we invite you to contact us:
By email to: contact@samb-baiona.net or click here
By post to: SAMB Château Neuf, Place Paul Bert, 64100 Bayonne- France

NEW !!! Beginning in late 2024, SAMB will also be recognized as an American non-profit organization through its collaboration with Myriad USA. This status allows individuals who itemize their U.S. tax returns or receive payments from American Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) to obtain a tax deduction for their donations:
every.org/Societe des Amis du Musee Basque

Les Mourners or Two Young Women in Prayer Marie Garay, 1902.

See No. 199 of the Basque Museum Bulletin to learn more about this artist, the only woman in the Bayonne School, which brought together the students of Léon Bonnat.

The spectacular White Peacock by Henry Caro-Delvaille, circa 1906. This very large painting, which now welcomes the visitor to the beautiful atrium rotunda of the Basque Museum, depicts a family from Bayonne’s Jewish bourgeoisie ( see n° 195 of the BMB).

Portrait of Marcelle Salle in 1939, José Gonzales de la Peña, inv. no. 2015.7.1.
The story of the portrait of this chair repairer from Came appears in issue 185 of the BMB.

A soup tureen made by the Novion factory in Saint-Esprit around 1835, Inv. no. 2010.1.1. Photo Alain Arnold.
No. 177 of the BMB retraces the production of this company.