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El MACBA is the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona is in Plaza de Angels at the top of Raval. It was opened on the 28th November 1995, having been designed by Richard Meier and partners. The building hints at modernism although it is very different to any of the other modernist work around the city. Instead of bright colours and curved lines like a lot of Gaudi's work, it has sharp lines and is simply white with one front mostly glass providing a great view of the square and allowing lots of natural light into the galleries.

The Gracia Arts Project is an ex-pat NGO on Calle San Honorat in Barrio Gótico, which was set up in 2000 as a way to collaborate a network of unknown artists and consciously pursue their talent and display their work. GAP recruits artists of all disciplines and then exhibits their work, a different exhibition every month in three languages, Catalan, Castillian and English. They do not have any specific criteria each artist has to fulfill, they are open to all sorts of expression and are keen to expand and broaden the abilities of individual, imaginative people.

Antoni Tapies, a Catalan artist who was born in 1923 in Barcelona, is nourished with the Catalan culture and art. He had studied law for 3 years but then left law due to his lung disease and during his convalescence in senatorium he started being interested in arts. Then on he had too many exibitions, famous pieces and counted to be one of the most famous representatives of European abstract expressionism.
He had used different types of materials in his paintings throughout his carreer. He combined clay, marble dust and used paper in 50s and those pieces were exhibited in Tate Gallery in London. In 70s he used other different objects in his paintings like parts of furniture under the influence of pop art. During his art life, he had several solo exhibitions in different cities around the world like Cologne, London, New York, Milan, Stockholm,Palma de Mallorca and of course Barcelona.

The Museu National d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC) is housed in the Palau National, a neo-baroque palace. The museum building is located at the bottom of the mountain Montjuïc. The Palau was originally the Spanish Pavilion of the World Exhibition of 1929. After intensive renovation it was reopened in 1997. The museum collected total of more than 260,000 objects of art and thus is certainly the largest and most significant museum in Barcelona.
Through a Catalonian Museum-Act, the Museum MNAC was founded in 1990 by the merger of the Museu d'Art de Catalunya (Romantic, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque) and the Museu d'Art Modern (art of the 19th and 20th centuries).