Amsterdam's Moco Museum is coming to Barcelona
The Catalan capital is the first in Europe to offer an exhibition space dedicated to NFTs, alongside emerging artists such as Banksy and Guillermo Lorca.
The Modern and Contemporary Art Museum (Moco) is an independent cultural institution installed in a modernist villa in the Netherlands' capital. Founded in 2016, its mission is to make art accessible to a larger audience and to "represent the voices on the street" with iconic works of renowned artists and new stars, such as Os Gêmeos.
Following the proposal's success on October 16, the Moco Museum opened the doors of its new location in El Born, at 25 Montcada Street, at the Palau Cervelló-Giudice, right next to the Museu Picasso. The house was the residence of the noble family that gave it its name until the 18th century, although it incorporates parts of a building dating from before the 15th century. From the outside, the building has a gothic facade that gives way to an inner courtyard and an arched staircase with Renaissance-style columns, capitals and mouldings.
The sobriety of the building contrasts with the eclecticism of its interiors. The museum's collection is divided into four areas. The collection Moco Masters Modern hosts works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Salvador Dalí, Damien Hirst, Keith Haring, KAWS and Yayoi Kusama, while the Moco Masters Contemporary gathers emerging stars such as Cavis LaChapelle, Hayden Kays, Harland Miller, Julian Opie, Nick Thommen or Takashi Murakami.
When it comes to technological expression, Moco is giving special attention to immersive experiential and digital art through the exhibitions teamLab, Les Fantômes and Studio Irma.
The museum offers a limited number of tickets, meaning that at any time, tickets for a certain slot may stop being available. For this reason, they have set up an online booking system with tickets that have specific times established, with access every 20 minutes, that you can find here. The system informs of the availability of tickets in real-time and the ticket gradation. Visits before 10 am are cheaper while other time slots cost up to 3 euros more, with all prices ranging between 7.40 and 16.50 euros, depending on whether they are reduced or adult fares. The system also offers the possibility to change the ticket's date, subject to availability.