Overview
- The Departament de Cultura and MACBA presented Un museu fora del museu on Friday, June 19, 2026, and the rollout will run progressively until November 30 with displays now appearing in more than twenty Catalan municipalities.
- Curator Martí Manen selected works to be shown as reproductions—photographs, videos and postcard facsimiles—for conservation reasons and to suit non‑traditional sites such as hairdressers, markets, buses, pharmacies and a cemetery.
- Local cultural centres, shop owners and municipal staff are hosting the displays and will use signage and documentation to explain the pieces and their artists to visitors.
- Organizers frame the project as a way to democratize and desacralize the museum collection, but they acknowledge most exhibition points remain clustered around the Barcelona metropolitan area.
- Press reports give different totals for the number of works (about 30–40), and the programme coincides with MACBA’s 30th anniversary moment and the recent appointment of director Valentín Roma.