Museum

The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art—MACBA, in Catalan Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona—opened to the public on 28 November 1995, and it still frames its identity around that late start. You find it in Plaça dels Àngels, in the El Raval area of Ciutat Vella, and it is recognised as a Cultural Asset within Catalonia’s cultural heritage. The museum’s story begins with ambition before it had a collection: in 1959, art critic Alexandre Cirici Pellicer organised a sequence of twenty-three exhibitions to help build one. That long preparation then meets architecture. In 1986, the City Council recommended Richard Meier & Partners to design the museum, and the MACBA Foundation was created in 1987, with the MACBA Consortium following in the next year. In 2014, MACBA expanded programming to an additional venue—a converted 15th-century chapel and two halls, totaling about 21,500 square feet—and extended its reach toward the square itself. …

AI-generated from open data and cross-checked, with review where noted. How we write narrations

+−

© OpenStreetMap contributors, © Carto

View on WayWhisper map ↗