Moco Museum Barcelona
Sixteenth-century merchant palace of Gothic arches now filled with Banksy, Basquiat and Warhol.
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This guide to the Moco Museum Barcelona starts under the archway on Carrer de Montcada, a doorway that for centuries only opened for the invited. It traces the palace behind it from its fifteenth-century construction for the noble Cervello family through its later owners, the merchant Giudice dynasty, and the wealth and status the building was built to display. You'll also hear about the day in October 2021 when its doors opened to the public for the first time as a museum of contemporary art.
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