Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
White modernist museum with a skater-favored plaza of ledges and ramps merging seamlessly into its glass facade.
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This guide to the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona follows the standoff that began the day it opened in 1995, when guards and sometimes police chased skateboarders off Richard Meier's smooth white forecourt of ledges and ramps. You'll hear how the skaters kept coming back, organized, and negotiated with local officials rather than give up the spot, slowly turning a tolerated nuisance into something else. Listen for the clatter of wheels on stone as you approach the glass facade.
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