International Museum Day

At a time when conflict is proliferating across different geographies, museums assert themselves as spaces of calm – not only as places of art and sensibility, but also as shelters for thought and dialogue. ln this context, MAC/CCB wholeheartedly embraces ICOM’s theme for lnternational Museum Day 2026 and its call “to unite a divided world.”

We celebrate inclusion and diversity by creating connections across generations and communities, including through a programme specially conceived forthis occasion. We invite visitors to experience the exhibitions on view, but also to share with us the perspectives they develop-whether in the form of a reflection ora drawing. Your gaze has something to add. And we would like to share it.

Argentine artist Ad Minoliti, invited to engage in dialogue with Gilbert & George’s March in “May I Help You? Posso Ajudar?” Arts and Artists from the 1910s Onwards, has conceived a workshop for children centred on collage as a means of creating protest posters. But we also invite adults to draw the museum and join talk and tours throughout the afternoon. Learning meets memory, and visitors leave with new ways of seeing the world, allowing the museum to extend beyond its walls and into everyday life.

Claiming Children’s Rights
◾ 10:00am to 06:00pm

Claiming children’s rights through colour is the guiding principie of the day. Based on a concept by Ad Minoliti, the programme includes a reading of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and invites younger participants (aged 6 and above) to create a poster using collage and drawing, which they can carry through the museum hall in a collective march alongside two works that reference protest and social activism.

+ 6 years | Concept: Ad Minoliti
Free participation, no prior registration required

Museum, Pencil in Hand
◾ 10:00am to 06:00pm 

Visitors of all ages are invited to pick up a pencil and paper-available on site-and explore the museum by drawing the works on display. A day shaped by moments of inspiration, where making meets leisure, experimentation, and shared exchanges in line and colour.

Free admission | Subject to prior registration to the form or email address  servico.educativo.museu@ccb.pt

TALKS
◾ 4:00pm
José Pedro Croft guides us through the Reflections, Enclaves, Deviations of his work

◾ 5:00pm
Curator Nuria Enguita shares her perspective on the exhibition Multiple Eyes
Subject to prior registration to the form or email address  servico.educativo.museu@ccb.pt

Tours in English
◾  3:00pm
A cross-exhibition tour linking An Atlantic Drift. The Arts of the 20th Century Based on the Berardo Collection and “May I Help You? Posso Ajudar?” Art and Artists from the 1970s Onwards
Free admission, subject to prior registration to the form or email address  servico.educativo.museu@ccb.pt

Short tours
◾  11:00am – 12:30pm, 2:30pm – 5:30pm
Thirty-minute walks through An Atlantic Drift. The Arts of the 20th Century Based on the Berardo Collection

30 minute tours of “May I Help You? Posso Ajudar?” Arts and Artists from the 1970s Onwards
Free participation, no prior registration required