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MUSEUM ROOMS LEVEL 1 Go to room 7
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1 5 Tienda
LEVEL 2 15
Go to room 16
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LEVEL 3 18 22 17
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LEVEL 4
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Go to room 27
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Aguilera Cerni Contemporary Art Museum (original Spanish acronym: MACVAC) was created in 1970, though it was officially opened in August 1972. Initially it was named VilafamĂŠs Contemporary Art Popular Museum. The idea to create this space came from the essayist and art critic Vicente Aguilera Cerni, who was its founder and first director, and for this reason nowadays the Museum bears his name. Aguilera Cerni, together with VilafamĂŠs mayor at that moment, Vicente Benet, managed to launch an outstanding and unprecedented project in Spain at that time. Due to the special features both in content and form, our Museum is considered as a benchmark in the context of contemporary art. The collection has more than six hundred pieces, although only about three hundred of them can be exhibited, for space reasons. Some of the pieces are donations and others are at temporary of indefinite storage, with the peculiarity that some of them are on sale.
MACVAC is located at Palau del Batlle, a 15th Century palace of civic Gothic architecture that has had several subsequent adaptations. It was the royal administrator’s official residence, and the headquarters of the Order of Montesa’s representative. Artists such as Joan Miró, Julio González, Josep Renau, Manuela Ballester or Alberto Sánchez give way to new generations, setting an exceptional collection that blends with a very special space. Anyone who visits the Museum will be surprised by its labyrinthine journey, its selected pieces, its beautiful courtyard. The history of art is built through these extraordinary experiences as well.
AJUNTAMENT DE VILAFAMÉS
Calle Diputación nº 20, CP 12192 • Vilafamés (Castellón) – España 964 329 152
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www.macvac.es
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info@macvac.es