The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art ( The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, as a public entity, has the social responsibility of spreading and promoting contemporary art, presenting a wide range of artistic visions, and generating critical discussions about art and culture, while it also aims to reach an increasingly diverse audience.

The Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Barcelona is a place where the public can find a space to express their public aspirations. The Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona is an open institution where the public can find a space to express their aspirations, with a priority on education and innovation among the areas it covers. In addition, it is committed to the preservation of cultural heritage and cooperation with other institutions, remaining at the forefront of the Spanish Catalan art system and consolidating Barcelona's position as a world art capital and international art benchmark.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona is managed by the MACBA Consortium, an organization founded in 1988. In 1995, MACBA officially opened its headquarters in the heart of the Raval district, in a new building designed by South American architect Richard Meier. In 1995, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona opened its headquarters in the heart of the Raval district, in a new building designed by South American architect Richard Meier. Since then, the museum has continued to expand into new areas of contemporary art and the dissemination of cultural practices, and the influence of the MOCA has helped make Barcelona a city with a reputation for innovation.

In 1959, the art critic Alexandre Cirici Pellicer initiated a series of 23 exhibitions by a group of contemporary artists to The series of 23 exhibitions was initiated by Alexandre Cirici Pellicer, a contemporary artist, with the aim of opening the collection of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. It was not until 1986 that the Barcelona City Council recommended the American architectural firm of Richard Meyer and Associates to design the museum, and hired art critics Franscesc Miralles and Rosa Queralt to write a book on the museum. Queralt was hired to write the museum's mission statement.

In 1987 the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Barcelona Foundation was founded, and in the following year it worked with the Generalitat de Catalunya (Autonomous Government of Catalonia) and the Municipal Council of Barcelona to establish the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Barcelona Consortium ( In late 1988, the Consortium appointed Richard Meyer to design and build the museum, which was controversial at the time because it had no collections at the time of construction.

However, Meyer withstood the pressure and faced the difficulties to design a museum that at the time did not know what kind of contemporary art would eventually be exhibited. With an investment of 35 million dollars, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona was completed and was described by the local press as the "jewel" of Barcelona's old buildings and narrow streets, and is located just a few blocks away from the center of Barcelona's Gothic architecture. The Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona's architectural style is highly modernist, with a simple white cube shape and a combination of vertical and horizontal facades created through facade cuts and the bold introduction of anomalies, giving the space endless variety. The south-facing design of the museum not only provides ample natural light for the interior exhibition halls, but also allows the public to enjoy the outside plaza in the museum.