Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León

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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC)
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Established April 1, 2005[1]
Location 24 Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, León, Spain
Visitors 500.000[2]
Director Agustín Pérez Rubio
Website www.musac.es

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, better known as the MUSAC, is a contemporary art museum in the city of León, Spain.

Inaugurated in April 2005 by Felipe, Prince of Asturias, this cultural institution aims to be a "Museum of the Present", in the words of its curator Agustín Pérez Rubio, and thus only collects artworks from the latest generation of artists, between 1992 and 2012.[1][3][4] The museum has won international prestige for its 21st-century collection and innovative programming, being labelled, for example, as "one of the most astonishingly bold museums to hit the Spanish cultural landscape in years" by The New York Times.[3][5]

The MUSAC building is celebrated for its avant-garde architecture, and it has been awarded a number of prizes, such as the 2007 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe award).[6] Designed by the architectural studio of Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón (Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos), the multicolored panels that adorn the exterior of the museum resemble the stained-glass windows of a cathedral. Indeed, the architects drew their inspiration for this work from the main rose window (called The Falconer) at the local 13th century Gothic cathedral, Santa María de León.[1]

MUSAC has become a landmark for the city of León,[1] and an emblem of the new 21st century Spanish architecture,[3] as showcased in a 2006 exhibition at the MoMA of New York City (On-Site: New Architecture in Spain), which selected the MUSAC as one of the arquitectural projects that make Spain today "an international center for design innovation and excellence".[7]

Gallery

  • Facade

  • AMIKEJO at MUSAC with Fermín Jiménez Landa & Lee Welch

  • MUSAC SNOW.jpg

    A view of MUSAC on a winter's day

  • MUSAC OPENING DAY.jpg

    MUSAC during its opening.

  • M027.jpg

    MUSAC interior.

  • ARA37.jpg

    MUSAC interior.

References

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