Museum of Contemporary Art
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They include:
Americas
- Museum of Contemporary Art of RosarioMuseum of Contemporary Art of RosarioThe Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario is an annex to the Juan B. Castagnino Fine Arts Museum that is devoted to contemporary art, located in the city of Rosario, ....
, Argentina - Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Niterói Contemporary Art MuseumNiterói Contemporary Art MuseumThe Niterói Contemporary Art Museum is situated in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is one of the city’s main landmarks...
, Niterói, Brazil - Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Quebec, Canada
- Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtMuseum of Contemporary Canadian ArtThe Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art was founded from the former Art Gallery of North York in 1999, and exists as a not-for-profit, arms-length agency of the City of Toronto...
, Toronto, Canada - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, Chile)Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, Chile)The Contemporary Art Museum in Santiago, Chile is one of the major museums of the city. It is operated by the University of Chile Art Department. The museum is located near Parque Forestal behind the National Museum of Fine Arts....
- Museo de Arte ContemporaneoMuseo de Arte ContemporaneoMuseo de Arte Contemporáneo or MAC is a modern art museum in Valdivia run by Universidad Austral de Chile. It was founded in 1994 by the then rector of Universidad Austral Manfred Max-Neef and the artist Hernán Miranda. Artists that have had exhibitions at MAC include: Nicanor Parra and Juan...
, Valdivia, Chile - Aguascalientes Museum of Contemporary Art, Aguascalientes, Mexico
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de MonterreyMuseo de Arte Contemporáneo de MonterreyMuseo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey is one of the leading museums of contemporary art in Mexico. MARCO organizes major exhibitions with regional and international contemporary artists. It is located in the heart of Monterrey next to the Macroplaza and Barrio Antiguo...
, Monterrey, Mexico - Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary ArtPuerto Rico Museum of Contemporary ArtThe Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, often abbreviated to MAC, is a contemporary art museum in Santurce, Puerto Rico.-History:...
, San Juan, Puerto Rico
United States
- Museum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoMuseum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoThe Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary art venues...
, Illinois, USA - Museum of Contemporary Art ClevelandMuseum of Contemporary Art ClevelandThe Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, better known by its acronym, MOCA, is a contemporary art museum located in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1968 by Marjorie Talalay, Agnes Gund, and Nina Castelli Sundell as The New Gallery, the museum was renamed the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art in...
, Ohio, USA - Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Colorado, USA
- Museum of Contemporary Art DetroitMuseum of Contemporary Art DetroitThe Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit or MOCAD is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Detroit's cultural center. The mission of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is to present art at the forefront of contemporary culture...
, Michigan, USA - Museum of Contemporary Art of GeorgiaMuseum of Contemporary Art of GeorgiaThe Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia is a contemporary art museum located in Atlanta. The museum collects and archives hundreds of contemporary works by Georgia artists...
, Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Atlanta Contemporary Art CenterAtlanta Contemporary Art CenterThe Atlanta Contemporary Art Center is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in the West Midtown district of Atlanta. The center presents 8-10 art exhibitions per year that are free to the public every Thursday. The Contemporary also commissions artwork and organizes approximately 50...
, Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Museum of Contemporary Art JacksonvilleMuseum of Contemporary Art JacksonvilleThe Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, also known as MOCA Jacksonville, is a contemporary art museum in Jacksonville, Florida, funded and operated as a "cultural resource" of the University of North Florida...
, Florida, USA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesThe Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near Walt Disney Concert Hall...
, California, USA - Museum of Contemporary Art, North MiamiMuseum of Contemporary Art, North MiamiThe Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum located in the heart of downtown North Miami, Florida. The structure was designed by the internationally acclaimed architecture firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, New York, which worked in conjunction with the Miami firm of Gelabert-Navia to...
, Florida, USA - Museum of Contemporary Art San DiegoMuseum of Contemporary Art San DiegoThe Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego , in San Diego, California, USA, is an art museum focused on the collection, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of works of art from 1950 to the present.-History:...
, California, USA - Museum of Contemporary Art, TucsonMuseum of Contemporary Art, TucsonThe Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, Arizona, USA, was founded in 1996, by Julia Latane, James Graham, and David Wright, artists and arts advocates....
, Arizona, USA - Contemporary Art Museum St. LouisContemporary Art Museum St. LouisThe Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is an art museum for contemporary art, located in St. Louis, in the U.S. state of Missouri.- External links :*...
St. Louis, Missouri, USA - Contemporary Arts Museum HoustonContemporary Arts Museum HoustonThe Contemporary Arts Museum – Houston is a not-for-profit institution in Houston, Texas, dedicated to presenting the contemporary art of our time to the public....
, Houston, Texas, USA - Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Kemper Museum of Contemporary ArtKemper Museum of Contemporary ArtThe Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 1994 in Kansas City, Missouri. The core of the museum's permanent collection is the Bebe and R. Crosby Kemper Jr. Collection, a gift of the museum's founders. The collection includes works created after the 1913 Armory Show to works by present-day...
, Kansas City, Missouri, USA - Madison Museum of Contemporary ArtMadison Museum of Contemporary ArtThe Madison Museum of Contemporary Art — MMoCA, formerly known as the Madison Art Center, is an art museum located in Madison, Wisconsin. A three-story glass facade "icon" on the corner of State and Henry Streets serves as the museum's main staircase, as well as its architectural...
, Madison, Wisconsin, USA - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary ArtMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary ArtThe Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, commonly referred to as MASS MoCA, is a museum in a converted factory building located in North Adams, Massachusetts, USA. It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing arts in the country.MASS MoCA opened with 19...
, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA - Nerman Museum of Contemporary ArtNerman Museum of Contemporary ArtThe Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art is an art museum that is located on the campus and is a department of Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. The museum is named for donors and local art collectors Jerry and Margaret Nerman. It opened in October 2007, succeeding the...
, Overland Park, Kansas, USA - New Museum of Contemporary ArtNew Museum of Contemporary ArtThe New Museum, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world...
, New York, New York, USA - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary ArtScottsdale Museum of Contemporary ArtScottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art is the state of Arizona's only permanent museum dedicated solely to modern works of art, design and architecture. The museum is located in the Old Town district of downtown Scottsdale, Arizona....
, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA - The Contemporary Museum, HonoluluThe Contemporary Museum, HonoluluThe now defunct Contemporary Museum, Honolulu was the only museum in the state of Hawaii devoted exclusively to contemporary art. The Contemporary Museum had two venues: in residential Honolulu at the historic Spalding House, and downtown Honolulu at First Hawaiian Center.-Collection:Artists...
, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Europe
- iS.CaM. Istanbul Contemporary Art MuseumIstanbul Contemporary Art MuseumIstanbul Contemporary Art Museum is an independent museum established in 1997. It is an alternative artist run art organisation that develops and colloborates with other institutions and networks. One of its tenets is that art and education should go together hand in hand...
Istanbul, Turkey. - MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century ArtsMAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century ArtsThe MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts is a national museum dedicated to contemporary creativity, located in the Flaminio neighbourhood of Rome, Italy. It is managed by a foundation created by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities...
, Rome, Italy - Museum of Contemporary Art, BelgradeMuseum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade)Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade is the art institution which collects and displays work produced since in 1900 in Serbia and former Yugoslavia. The museum also organizes international exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. It was founded in 1958 as the Museum of Modern Art...
, Serbia - Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-MarneMusée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-MarneThe Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, nicknamed MAC/VAL, is a museum of contemporary art located in the Place de la Libération in Vitry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, a suburb of Paris, France. It is open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged.The museum opened in 2005, and is...
, Val-de-Marne, France - Museum of Contemporary Art of RomeMuseum of Contemporary Art of RomeThe Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome is a municipal art museum located in the north-east of Rome, Italy, on Via Reggio Emilia.-History:The project began in the late 1990s over the site old factories Peroni...
, Italy - Museum of Contemporary Art, ZagrebMuseum of Contemporary Art, ZagrebThe Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum located on Dubrovnik Avenue in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the biggest and most modern museum in the country....
, Croatia - Barcelona Museum of Contemporary ArtBarcelona Museum of Contemporary ArtThe Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art is situated in the Plaça dels Àngels, in El Raval, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Spain. The museum opened to the public on November 28, 1995. Its current director is Bartomeu Marí . Previous directors were Daniel Giralt-Miracle , Miguel Molins , Manuel J...
, Barcelona, Spain - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y LeónMuseo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y LeónThe Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, better known as the MUSAC, is a contemporary art museum in the city of León, Spain....
, León, Spain - Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain
- National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania), Bucharest, Romania
- State Museum of Contemporary Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
Asia
- Museum of Contemporary Art, AsiaMuseum of Contemporary Art, AsiaThe Moca Asia: Museum of Contemporary Art, Asia is a contemporary art museum in Hong Kong. It was opened in 2007.-Prominent Establishments:*Art and Fashion Initiative: World Fashion Day March 21 ;...
, Hong Kong - Tehran Museum of Contemporary ArtTehran Museum of Contemporary ArtTehran's Museum of Contemporary Art is an art museum in Tehran, Iran.Inaugurated in 1977, and built adjacent to Tehran's Laleh Park, the museum was designed by Iranian architect Kamran Diba, who employed elements from traditional Persian architecture. The building can be listed as a contemporary...
, Iran - MoCA TaipeiMoCA TaipeiMoCA Taipei is a museum of contemporary art, located in Taipei, Taiwan.It was built during the period of Japanese rule in 1921 as Jan Cheng Elementary School, which now occupies a new structure on the back of the historical building.After WWII, it hosted the Taipei city government and became an...
, TaipeiTaipeiTaipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
, Taiwan - Museum of Contemporary Art, TokyoMuseum of Contemporary Art, TokyoThe is a contemporary art museum in Tokyo, Japan. The museum is located in Kiba Park. It was opened in 1995.- Prominent exhibits :*Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol *Girl with Hair Ribbon by Roy Lichtenstein -External links:* website...
, Japan - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, KanazawaThe 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa is a museum of contemporary art located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.It was designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architect office SANAA in 2004...
, Japan - Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China
- National Museum of Contemporary Art (South Korea), Seoul, South Korea