The exhibition has the objective, on the one hand, to remember the collector Joaquim Cabot and, on the other hand, to present a selection of the donation in a contextualized way.

From 8/11/2022 to 7/5/2023

We incorporate into the collection the period stretching from the post-war years and the Franco dictatorship to the return of democracy and the beginnings of Post-modernism, a period that has been called the second Avant-garde.

January – March 2019

On the occasion of the exhibition Gala Salvador Dalí. A Room of One’s Own in Púbol, there was a small intervention in the Room 75 of Modern Art Collection, which includes nine photographs of Dalí resulting from the "photographic sessions" of some of the most outstanding Catalan photographers of the moment.

From 3/7/2018 to 14/10/2018

On the occasion of the exhibition William Morris and the Arts & Crafts movement in Great Britain, a small intervention has been made in room 69 of Modern Art Collection that includes a Gothic altarpiece and two bookbinders of the early XX century. These works illustrate the connections established with the Arts & Crafts movement.

Until the 21/5/2018

A numismatic exhibition about medals with the pieces displayed as a legacy of the exhibition “Barcelona 1917: The medal at the Exposition d’Arts Français. The legacy in the museum’s collections”. It was celebrated in Barcelona in 1917 because of the Great War (1914-1918), since Paris, Europe’s main artistic centre, couldn’t celebrate their famous art exhibitions.

The Museu Nacional is to open two new rooms that will prolong the period it covers until well into the 1960s. While we await the future enlargement of the museum, these rooms will be a prefiguration of the display of art from the years following the Civil War and they will function as a flexible, experimental exhibition within the permanent collection.

From 2018

This year the Loop Festival is back with 3 video-installations at the Modern Art rooms of the museum, from the hand of three different artists: Olympia, de David Claerbout; Ohio at Giverny, de Mary Lucier; y Radical Videos, de Nam June Paik.

The Museu Nacional shows a selection of drawings and photographs around The First Cold, one of most representatives works of Miquel Blay

From 15/12/2016

Video screenings in the Romanesque art rooms

From 21/05/2016 to 12/06/2016

The Carving of Saint John the Evangelist from the VINSEUM Museu de les Cultures del Vi de Catalunya, in Vilafranca del Penedès is exhibited as if in dialogue with other images from Erill la Vall, Taüll and Durro, in the Vall de Boí, all of which are preserved at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.

From 26/03/2015 to 14/02/2016

A dialogue between the video art collection of the Fundació Sorigué and the collection of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

From 28/05/2015 to 30/08/2015

The four marble heads that we are presenting are fragments from the doorway of Sant Pere de Rodes, a masterpiece attributed to one of the most surprising Romanesque sculptors, the ‘Master of Cabestany’. His work has been found in several places in southern Europe, from Tuscany (Italy) to Navarre, although most of the examples conserved are to be found in northern Catalonia and Languedoc.

From 04/04/2014 to 28/09/2014

Intervention in the rooms of the permanent collection which will show how Romanesque art was one of the underlying art forms in the training, inspiration and sensibility of Antoni Tàpies.

From 31/08/2013 to 27/04/2014

A display of this collection is currently on exhibition in room 56 of the museum, within the frame of Partage Plus-Digitising and Enabling Art Nouveau for Europeana, a project partially financed by the European Union, which makes this valuable modernist collection of the museum accessible to the public.

From 11/06/2013 to 30/03/2014