The museum was interesting and extravagant. Tickets cost about 10 euros per student. The exhibits are changing and varied. Some were too bold for my taste.
MACBA anchors El Raval’s contemporary pulse in Richard Meier’s luminous white architecture—an elegant counterpoint to the neighbourhood’s raw, lived-in energy. Its collection moves with Barcelona’s modern cultural memory, from postwar abstraction and European pop to avant-garde experiments and today’s global voices, while talks, screenings, and performances keep the museum firmly in the city’s present tense. Linger in Plaça dels Àngels afterward to watch the choreography of skaters and locals—an unmistakably current Barcelona tableau.
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