Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

A Catalan Museum Act, the museum MNAC was founded in 1990 by the merger of the Museu d’Art de Catalunya (Romance, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque) and the Museu d’Art Modern (Arts of the 19th and 20th century).

Museu Nacional d’At de Catalunya: Palau Nacional, Parc de Montjuïc, s/n, 08038 Barcelona, Spain

The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) is housed in the Palau Nacional, a Neo-Baroque palace.

The Palau was originally the Spanish Pavilion at the World Fair of 1929. After extensive renovation work it was reopened in 1997. Overall, the museum exhibits more than 260,000 works of art and is therefore the largest and most important museum in Barcelona.

The world’s largest collection of Roman frescoes fills most of the rooms of the MNAC. The Romanesque frescoes date from the vestibule of 29 major Romanesque churches in the Pyrenees. So they could be saved before being destroyed by the Spanish Civil War. The frescoes are in so-called “ambits’. These are small demarcated areas. In each ambit you can get information about the church, from which the frescoes are.

The second-floor houses modern arts

Out of the museum