The CCB Museum, currently with its doors open with permanent and temporary exhibitions, will officially open as the Museum of Contemporary Art MAC/CCB  on the 28th October with the presentation of the collections in deposit – the Berardo Collection, the Ellipse Collection and an exhibition of drawings from the Teixeira de Freitas 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. The 2023/2024 Season reflects this view. 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.