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Established
  
September 10, 1992

Website
  
www.davismuseum.com

Phone
  
+34 932 85 66 22

Director
  
Davis Lisboa

Province
  
Province of Barcelona

Location
  
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Address
  
Carrer de Puigmartí, 7, 08012 Barcelona, Spain

Hours
  
Open today · Open 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hours

Similar
  
Davis Museum at Wellesley, Joanic, Barcelona Museum of Contemp, Arnolfini, Fundació Antoni Tàpies

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Davis Museum (The Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art) was founded in Barcelona and online in 2009, by Davis Lisboa. It is the smallest contemporary art museum in the world. It has its own permanent contemporary art collection, located in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Davis Museum is also a ready-made sculpture and a collaborative and collective work of art. The Museum is a non-profit artistic project that organizes and produces exhibitions, encourages research and promotes contemporary art exhibitions all over the world. In Barcelona, the museum realises itself by showing one artwork of its collection at a time in a cube of acrylic glass.

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Davis Museum has travelling exhibitions to other museums, cultural centers and institutions, nationally and internationally. The projects mission is the selection, presentation, study, dissemination and preservation of contemporary art by emerging and renowned artists from around the world. And also to question the notion of a museum. The Davis Museum collection of contemporary art has been recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Autonomous Community of Kingdom of Spain).

Whenever Davis Museum receives a new work of art as donation for its collection, its founder, Davis Lisboa, tries to produce a video about the work in collaboration with the artist, the artwork, and with an art institution.

Wayne thiebaud donates major works of art to new uc davis museum


References

Davis Museum Wikipedia