MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), in its two headquarters of Parque Forestal and Quinta Normal in Santiago, depends on the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile. As such, it assumes the mission of a university institution, welcoming the diversity of trends that are part of our cultural life, promoting a constant debate and theoretical reflection on all areas of human knowledge.

Due to its character as a museum specialized in modern and contemporary art, the MAC has the task of exploring new productive options, articulating both its collection, its curatorial line and the exhibits invited by the museum - national and international - from a contemporary perspective. Its collection of more than 2,800 pieces is a historiographical reference against current exhibitions.

Through these two aspects, one of the main objectives of the museum is to undertake more and more its social commitment, establishing a bridge between the public and the problems that arise from the new artistic manifestations. In response to this socio-cultural function, aimed at being in tune with the reality of a world in constant change, the museum must also develop programs that are increasingly broad and far from conventional, becoming, in accordance with international standards, an unorthodox instrument that simultaneously embraces other fields of art.

It is the joint fulfillment of these postulates that allows to make present and public the cultural need of this institution.