12/12/2016

A different kind of visit

On 28 November 4th year Humanities students were given a tour of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) reserves as part of a subject they are taking entitled: “Museums and their meaning”.

The tour, which was given by Mar and Javier, who are registry specialist and head of restoration respectively, consisted of a visit around the most unknown areas in a museum. These are the unloading/loading area, the area for packing and unpacking the boxes containing the artworks, and the three warehouses (one for two-dimensional works, one for three-dimensional works, and another for paper material and audiovisual negatives). The tour included a detailed explanation of the procedure for loaning artworks to the museum for temporary exhibitions.