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Mission
Mission
The National Museum of Contemporary Art is to be a national reference, featuring the leading collection of Portuguese Art from the second half of the nineteenth century until the present. With a collection of more than 5000 species, covering the wide field of painting, sculpture, design, photography and new media, including the seminal works of the major movements of this period, the museum manifests its commitment and accomplishes its vital functions by preserving, documenting and unfolding the most important national collection of art of the nineteenth and modernism, while continuously questioning contemporary art by monitoring production and by establishing qualified, consistent and representative collections allowing the construction of a critical memory of national contemporary art.
The permanent exhibition is periodically renewed, according to a work of historical and critical research, witch contributes to reevaluate and exploit some of the most paradigmatic works or artistic moments of Portuguese art and allows the museum to pursue a policy of enlarging its collection, through acquisitions, bequests and donations, filling historic gaps in some areas of the permanent collection, expanding its meanings or bringing new contributions to a rereading of a particular period or work of an artist, to remain at the forefront of its field.
The quality of programming and public service of MNAC requires a team of exception, updated and enlightened, enabling an attitude of receptivity to continuous change through the incorporation of new ideas and initiatives, in a process of constant reassessment of the role and objectives of the museum, consistent with its own nature of contemporary art museum.
