The history of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) goes back to 1959 when art critic Alexandre Cirici Pellicer championed the idea of creating a museum of contemporary art in Barcelona. Cirici and Cesáreo Rodríguez Aguilera headed a group which began to gather together a collection which would serve as the foundation of the future museum; an active platform for irradiating contemporary art.
The Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona as you can see it today inaugurated in 1995 and is dedicated to the different artistic disciplines of the second half of the 20th century. The MACBA, designed by American architect Richard Meier, has a longitudinal floor plan with a 120 x 35 m base, in which a circular piece that serves to articulate exhibition space, is vertically inserted, passing through all four floors. It is Built in the middle of the old city of Raval and had been projected to offer to the public an access to the contemporary art of the city. You can also visit the specialized library and temporal exhibitions. Recommended for the passionate of art of the 20th.