MUSAC

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León aims to be a fundamental tool in creating collective sense about art and contemporary culture. MUSAC is defined as a space open to all citizens for thinking space, dialogue and sharing of tools for analysis and action proposals about art and its relationship with society in the period covering both the museum's collection as its programming. This chronological axis, which runs from the early 80s to the present, is conceptual starting point 1989, in which the fall of the Berlin Wall, the restructuring of Europe and the end of an international policy characterized by confrontation between blocks mark the beginning of the global landscape in which we live today.

The MUSAC Collection, the cornerstone of the museum now houses over 1,650 works by nearly 400 Castilian and Leonese, national and international artists. Around it a labor of study, research, conservation and dissemination with the mission to preserve for the future unfolds, and spread in this, an artistic heritage articulated enthroned various representative conceptual tours of the relationship of art with times and social, political, cultural and aesthetic situations from arising.

The exhibition program also affects the relationship between the contemporary artistic production and revision and contextualization of certain themes, movements or artists in a broader historical, political and social framework. center-periphery dynamics will also answer, favoring dialogue the local and the global, encouraging and supporting the creation, display, dissemination and research of art in Castilla y Leon.

From the museum special emphasis on the dissemination it is made from an educational concept whose aspiration is dialogue, sharing and creating meaning from the possibilities that art and culture give all citizens as a space for self-representation public . It also aims at creating a platform of thought and a network of partnerships generated from seminars, conferences, meetings, seminars, publications, meetings, etc. about work processes, exhibition programs, collection.

In short, MUSAC aims to position itself as a space that all citizens can live as a meeting place and public representation about the research, debate, discussion and enjoyment of contemporary art and culture