Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya (MAC)
Established	1932; 92 years ago (1932)
Location	Barcelona Empúries MAC Girona Olèrdola Ullastret
Type	Archaeology museum
Visitors	351,484 all museums (2017)[1]
Director	Jusèp Boya Busquet
Owner	Generalitat de Catalunya
Website	www.mac.cat

The Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (Catalan: Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya, MAC) is an archaeological museum with five venues that exposes the most important archaeological collection of Catalonia, focusing on prehistoric times and ancient history. The museum was originally founded in 1932 by the Republican Government of Catalonia. The modern institution was created under the Museums of Catalonia Act in 1990 by the Ministry of Culture of the same Government.

The head office is located in the former Palace of Graphic Arts, which was built on the Montjuïc hill for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. The pavilion was initially to be dismantled once the event was over, but it was conserved and refitted by the architect Josep Gudiol before the museum opened its doors in 1932.^[2]