National Art Museum of Catalonia (Barcelona)

Spain / Barcelona / Barcelona
 palace, museum, art -(to be removed, see EN descr.), interesting place, 1929_construction

Palau Nacional, Parc de Montjuïc, s/n
08038 Barcelona, Spain
www.museunacional.cat/ca

The National Art Museum of Catalonia (Catalan: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya), abbreviated as MNAC, is a museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia. It is housed in the Palau Nacional, built for the 1929 World's Fair. Situated on the Montjuïc hill, it was rehabilitated by the 1992 Summer Olympics.

The museum was created in 1990, when the Catalonian Museum Law reunited the collections of the former Museu d'Art de Catalunya (Catalonian Art Museum; Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque art) and the Museu d'Art Modern (Modern Art Museum; 19th and 20th century art), adding also the Gabinet de Dibuixos i Gravats (Department of Drawings and Prints), the Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya (Catalonia Department of Numismatics; coinage and medals) and the Biblioteca d'Història de l'Art (Art History Library). On 1996, the Department of Photography was created.
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Coordinates:   41°22'6"N   2°9'12"E

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