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Museu de Arte Contemporânea MAC/CCB
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Museu de Arte Contemporânea MAC/CCB

📍 Praça do Império, Lisboa, 1449-003🏗 2006-01-01

This spot is where the Berardo Collection Museum once stood, a bold bite of modern and contemporary art in a building that opened in 2007 and was officially founded as a foundation in 2006. The museum grew from a long-running loan of José Berardo’s art to the Centro Cultural de Belém, with the Portuguese state covering display costs while the works were owned by the Berardo Collection Association. It welcomed over 1,000 works on permanent display, plus rotating exhibitions, and was inaugurated on June 25, 2007, shortly after the Foundation of Modern and Contemporary Art was established on August 9, 2006. The collection was valued by Christie’s at roughly 316 million euros at the time, though the contract limited where the art could be sold. …

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