MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona vs Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
Both MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC are endorsed by travel writers. Overall, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC scores significantly better than MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC comes in at #5 in Barcelona with approval from 12 publications including Travel + Leisure, Fodor's and Condé Nast Traveler.
MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
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1 Placa dels Angels, 08001 Barcelona
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Fodor's
"This gleaming explosion of light and geometry in the darkest corner of Raval houses a permanent collection of contemporary art as well as traveling exhibits."
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Concierge
"When Richard Meier's cool, white, futuristic "ship" sailed into the heart of El Raval, it regenerated an area best known as the underbelly of Barcelona."
Travel + Leisure
"The Raval district's futuristic, all-white museum designed by Richard Meier looks like something out of The Jetsons and contains a world-class collection of art created in the past 50 years."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"Barcelona’s contemporary art museum (known as MACBA) focuses on mid-century abstraction and European Pop."
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Lonely Planet
"Macba (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona) has become the city's foremost contemporary art centre, with captivating exhibitions for the serious art lover."
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Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
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Parc de Montjuic, Palau Nacional, 08038 Barcelona
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Fodor's
"Housed in the imposingly domed, towered, frescoed, and columned Palau Nacional... this superb museum was renovated in 1995 by Gae Aulenti."
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Concierge
"Covering 1,000 years of Catalan art, this fully modernized museum on Montjuïc was carved out of the Palau Nacional for the 1929 International Exposition."
Travel + Leisure
"Journey up to the Parc de Monjuïc to see the work of Picasso's Barcelona contemporaries at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya."
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Frommer's
"Although its mammoth collection also covers the Gothic period and the 19th and 20th centuries, the MNAC is perhaps the most important center for Romanesque art in the world."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"An extensive collection of Catalan art, from Modernista sculptures to paintings by Dalí... also has large holdings of European Renaissance paintings."
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