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In the heart of the Raval, historical district and to populate in continuous evolution, rises the Contemporary Museum of art of Barcelona (MACBA), a building, inaugurated in 1995 on project of R. Meier, that hits for its white volume. Leaving to the Modern Museum of art the art of the nineteenth century and of the first one nine hundred, the MACBA reunites, in an important collection, the most recent tendencies of the Catalan art and of the international motions that influence it. The seat of Barcelona of the foundation "La Caixa", prestigious how much the of madrid consorella, is an of the most important seats European espositive of the contemporary art; accommodated in the spaces of the filatura Casarramona, was conceived from Puig i Cadafalch in 1913. Significant it is besides the Contemporary Culture center of Barcelona (CCCB). Across a considerable work of I restore some architects H. Pinon and TO. Valplana that integrates a modern accommodation in an ancient space, the Center is today a space polivalente in which important shows of art hold themselves. In this seat, besides, the electric music was istituzionalizzata thanks to the Sonar, an international festival of reputation. A lot the spaces that are dedicated at work of the large Spanishes of the art and of the world architecture of the twentieth century that the Museum of the Foundation Joan Mirò, wanted from the artist in 1975 and pledged in the study and in the promotion of the contemporary art, the Foundation Antoni Tápies, the Museum Gaudí. The Palau Berenguer of aguilar, in which it is found the Museum Picasso, did not be sufficient to contain the immense collection of the youthful works of the Spanish artist (from signal the series of the Meninas, the graphic art and the ceramics) and different adjacent residences were destined to the purpose. From 1993 a part of the Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza is accommodated in an ancient dormitory and in the lounge of honor of the apartments of the Queen Elisenda in the Monestir says Pedralbes, cloister in gothic style Catalan been based on in 1326 and inhabited from the clarisse since the sec. XIV. Barcelona does not collect alone modern works of art. The Museum of Story of the Town rises over an underground maze of 4000 m² of remains of the ancient Barcino, singular for its collection of plastics and of topographical cards that rebuild the urban story of the town. The National Museum of art of the Catalonia is one of the richest medieval museums of art to the world. The building, built for the Universal exhibition of 1929, collects collections of art romanica and gothic, particularly you fresco and retablos. They remember themselves besides the Archeological Museum, the Museum Etnologico and the Museum Federico Mares with an interesting collection of sculptures. |
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