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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
MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
8 / 10
1 Placa dels Angels, 08001 Barcelona
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Fodor's 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." Full review
Concierge 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 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." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler
"Barcelona’s contemporary art museum (known as MACBA) focuses on mid-century abstraction and European Pop." Full review
Lonely Planet 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." Full review
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Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
9 / 10
Parc de Montjuic, Palau Nacional, 08038 Barcelona
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Fodor's Fodor's
"Housed in the imposingly domed, towered, frescoed, and columned Palau Nacional... this superb museum was renovated in 1995 by Gae Aulenti." Full review
Concierge 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 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." Full review
Frommer's 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." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler
"An extensive collection of Catalan art, from Modernista sculptures to paintings by Dalí... also has large holdings of European Renaissance paintings." Full review
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