National Art Museum of Catalonia
The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, or MNAC, is Catalonia’s flagship collection of visual art, housed in the Palau Nacional on Montjuïc at the end of Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina. The museum is known for its outstanding Romanesque church paintings, along with Catalan art and design from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including modernisme and noucentisme. You’re also standing in a building with a long timeline: the Palau Nacional is an Italian-style structure dating to 1929, and it has housed the Museu d’Art de Catalunya since 1934. In 1990, under a Museums Law passed by the Catalan Government, the institution was declared a national museum, triggering a thorough renovation led by Gae Aulenti and Enric Steegmann, later joined by Josep Benedito Tobias. …
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