MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona

"This gleaming explosion of light and geometry in the darkest corner of Raval houses a permanent collection of contemporary art as well as traveling exhibits." Full review

"When Richard Meier's cool, white, futuristic "ship" sailed into the heart of El Raval, it regenerated an area best known as the underbelly of Barcelona."

"The Raval district's futuristic, all-white museum designed by Richard Meier looks like something out of The Jetsons and contains a world-class collection of art created in the past 50 years." Full review

"Barcelona’s contemporary art museum (known as MACBA) focuses on mid-century abstraction and European Pop." Full review

"Definitely worth a visit, if only to admire the stunning building." Full review

"Bursting out of the narrow streets and into its own spacious plaza, American architect Richard Meier’s bright white edifice has sought to bring artistic enlightenment to the masses." Full review

"Its vast white exhibition rooms display a permanent collection of 1,500 works from the second half of the 20C by leading Catalan artists such as Miró, Tàpies, Torres." Full review

"If you're used to being soft-soaped by eager-to-please art centres, you'll have to adjust to the cryptic minimalism of the MACBA, where art is taken very seriously indeed." Full review

"This modern white-cement-and-glass building designed by Richard Meier houses art by Spanish, Catalan, and international artists." Full review

"A soaring white edifice in the once-shabby but rebounding Raval district, the Museum of Contemporary Art is to Barcelona what the Pompidou Center is to Paris." Full review