The CCB Museum, currently with its doors open with permanent and temporary exhibitions, will officially open as Museum of Contemporary Art MAC/CCB on October 28th, 2023, with the presentation of the collections in deposit – the State Contemporary Art Collection of Portugal (CACE), the Teixeira de Freitas Collection, the Holma/Ellipse Collection (acquired by the Portuguese State in 2022), and the Berardo Collection –, as well as an exhibition by the Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere.

It is an important moment of affirmation of Centro Cultural de Belém’s Mission, which enhances the dialogue between the visual arts, architecture and performing arts.

The MAC/CCB will be a museum where the dialogue between the various artistic typologies is based on the multiplicity of contemporary art practices. It will provide not only historical views, but also map the views of today’s artists.

Two pillars will structure MAC/CCB’s lines of action: its understanding, not only as a repository of collections, but that the Museum is a service provided to the public that visits it, with a strong focus on mediation and education processes, and the view that the contemporary is what operates in the present – which implies looking to the past to understand ourselves.

The Architecture Center/Garagem Sul will organically integrate the MAC/CCB, stimulating relationships and dialogues between the practices and issues of architecture and the visual arts, fulfilling, in this way, the transversality that characterizes the Centro Cultural de Belém.

CCB’s artistic diversity makes it possible to cross programming. This common ground intends to be an opening to dialogue, to the understanding of the different paths that art takes, revisiting recent history in the sense of prospecting.