Open Doors at the Museu de Cultures del Món

The Museum of World Cultures serves as a platform of preservation, dissemination and social outreach of artistic heritage and knowledge of cultures from Asia, Africa, America and Oceania, all within the frame of Barcelona's heritage and culture made of the buildings that house the museum: the medieval-origin Nadal and Marquès de Llió noble houses in C/Montcada.

The formerly private collection that has never been shown to the public represents a big part of the 20-year bailment loan to Barcelona City Council of nearly 2,400 works from the Folch Foundation – of which 529 are on display. There are works from Africa, Asia, America and Oceania also supplemented by works from the Ethnological Museum of Barcelona and important pieces from private collections in Catalonia such as from the Clos Archaeological Foundation and the Duran Vall-llosera Archaeological Collection. Pieces from the Museum of Archeology & Anthropology of Cambridge will also be shown.

Apart from the original works, the permanent exhibition is strengthened with a set of interactive and audiovisual museum resources based on the collections of images, films and documentaries from the Ethnological Museum of Barcelona and the Folch Foundation, which gives insight into different aspects of cultures and landscapes in the rooms.