The MAC, Museum of Contemporary Art in Marseille, is located near the Chateau.
Since the sea Borély Racecourse, Hamburg avenue to the roundabout go back or to find one of the "inches" of the artist Caesar, and you arrived at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

That's a trend Museum!

Pursuing a policy of active and dynamic presentation of works and events related to contemporary practices of the 60s to the present day, MAC takes the rest of the Cantini Museum which he houses a public collection of modern art covering the period 1900 to 1960.

Will discover with your family the permanent exhibition that is interesting. It brings together important and representative of the art of the second half of the 20th century and revolves around the different trends emerged in the 1950s as the poster and in the sixties as the Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, The Figuration Narrative and, later, the Arte povera and Supports-Surfaces.
Rich of more than six hundred pieces, the collection itself brings together paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, films and installations. She is one of the three most interesting collections in the province. There are important ensembles and remarkable Absalon, Gilles Aillaud, Jean-Michel Basquiat, works Bernard Bazille, Ben, Christian Boltanski, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Caesar, Jimmie Durham, Rodney Graham, Carsten Höller, Ann Veronica Janssen,. Yves Klein, Gordon Matta-Clark, Annette Messager, Gabriel Orozco, Gina Pane, Paul Thek, Jean Tinguely, Dieter Roth, Marijke van Warmedam, Franz West, Wolf Wostell...

Furthermore the regional scene is richly represented with works by Georges Autard, Richard Baquié, Gilles Barbier, Judith Bartolani, Jean-Jacques Ceccarelli, Toni Grand, Piotr Klemensiewicz, Anita Molinero, Bernard Pagès, Michèle Sylvander, Gérard Traquandi, Claude Viallat.

And learn about the many temporary exhibitions.

Please call for planned exhibitions.

Reception of the public

The educational team offers, by appointment: for elementary school classes, colleges, high schools and students, approach works through exchanges of words and experiences. The course of these visits are tailored to different grade levels. Similarly the animations that allow different approaches to notions of body and space, actual and projected, from video works and films in the collection made by: Gordon Matta-Clark, Absalon, Bruce Nauman,...
For teachers, a visit before the exhibitions so that they can then bring their students calmly.
For disabled audiences, the courses are adapted to demand.

Namely

The Museum offers, at the same time, a series of lectures with the schools of Architecture and Fine Arts of Marseille, of meetings, of the symposia, concerts with Montevideo and the George, the shows dance with the national Ballet of Marseille and the Festival of Marseille and projections of cinema with the assistance of the National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou and the FID Marseille. Finally projects off the walls, [mac] brings its support to the Festival of Arts Ephemera.

The center of documentation Ernst Goldschmidt of the MAC, is an exceptional catalogues of exhibitions not found elsewhere, collection of essays and reviews on contemporary art. This library comes from the Institute of advanced studies in Art plastics founded by Ponthus Hulten in Paris enriched by the legacy of his library by Ernst Goldschmidt. Given to the [mac] by the son of Ernst Goldschmidt, fund a mission to gather the documentation written, Visual, sound and multimedia on contemporary artistic creation. It now includes 50,000 documents and also publishes a quarterly bibliographic bulletin which reports thousands of publications that enrich its collections each year. This newsletter called Catalogus gives a broad overview of international arts publications

The documentation center activities allow the meeting of very diverse audiences, fans, artists, researchers, curators, critics, students, and participate in the role of presenter and the function of the Museum
Practical information: Documents available on-site.

Open on sunday