Museo de Arte Contemporáneo

This article is about a museum in Valdivia, Chile. For other museums by this name, see Museum of Contemporary Art.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
Established 1994
Location Avenida Los Laureles, Isla Teja, Valdivia
Director Hernán Miranda
Website Museo de Arte Contemporaneo

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo or MAC (Spanish for Contemporary Art Museum) is a modern art museum in Valdivia run by Universidad Austral de Chile. It was founded in 1994 by the then rector of Universidad Austral Manfred Max-Neef and the artist Hernán Miranda. Artists that have had exhibitions at MAC include: Nicanor Parra and Juan Francisco Salazar. MAC was built in the same site of the old Anwandter Brewery that collapsed during the 1960 Valdivia earthquake.


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