MONTJUÏC, Mnac - First Part

The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, better known as MNAC, is the largest and most important Museum in Barcelona, and is entirely dedicated to Catalan art.

Few art collections in the world offer such richness and variety: it is a veritable treasure trove. The Museum towers over the city from its location in Palau Nacional, the huge, domed, 50,000 square meter building that was built at the foot of Montjuïc Hill in 1929 to host the main part of the Universal Exposition; a few years later it was transformed into a permanent museum. Sixty years later, the Museum was renovated with an impressive, two-phase intervention (Romanesque and Gothic art). On this occasion the halls' exteriors were even exploited, where medieval chapels and churches were rebuilt and now unexpectedly "stick out" in the Museum, almost as if they were contemporary art installations....