Itsasmuseum Bilbao

This guide to Itsasmuseum Bilbao follows the shipyard crane workers named Carola, after a young woman crossing the river to work in 1950s Deusto who stopped the whole yard whenever she passed. It traces the crane's decades hoisting steel hull sections for the Euskalduna shipyard, founded in 1900 and once employing well over three thousand men, through foreign competition and clashes with police on the nearby Deusto bridge as the yard slid toward closure in the 1980s. Look up at the crane's rusted red frame as you walk the old slipways and dock.