The raison-d’être

The collection is the raison-d’être of the museum. Promoting in the utmost in every aspect –science, exhibitions and communication– is strategic for the museum:

• To found the status of the museum on its most outstanding and notorious collection, that of the Romanesque murals.
• To become the flagship museum for the knowledge, understanding and dissemination of Catalan Modernisme.
• To construct new narratives on Catalan art in the international context.
• To offer a complete narrative of the 20th century, without chronological limits, that includes different disciplines such as film, photography, architecture, comics and digital art.
• To become a place for creation.
• To make the collections more accessible, while guaranteeing the conservation, documentation and restoration of the works of art and their preservation for future generations.
• To undertake an active policy of adding to collections.