Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art—MACBA, *Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona*—opened to the public on 28 November 1995 in Plaça dels Àngels. Its story begins decades earlier, in 1959, when art critic Alexandre Cirici Pellicer created a group of contemporary artists and mounted twenty-three exhibitions with the goal of building a new collection for a Barcelona museum. What makes MACBA distinctive is how long the project took to move from idea to building. In 1986, Barcelona’s City Council recommended the American architect Richard Meier & Partners (active on the commission from 1987–1995). The MACBA Foundation was created in 1987, and the following year the MACBA Consortium brought together the Foundation with the Generalitat de Catalunya and the City Council. Construction became controversial because the museum did not yet have a collection. …
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