TY - BOOK ED - Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. TI - Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya / : [textos and photos Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya] SN - 9788480431996 AV - N 3410.5 M87 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - [Barcelona, Spain] PB - Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya KW - Art museums KW - Spain KW - Barcelona KW - National museums N1 - The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (English: "National Art Museum of Catalonia"), abbreviated as MNAC, is a museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Situated on Montjuïc hill at the end of Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, near Pl Espanya, the museum is especially notable for its outstanding collection of romanesque church paintings, and for Catalan art and design from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including modernisme and noucentisme. The museum is housed in the Palau Nacional, a huge, Italian-style building dating to 1929. The Palau Nacional, which has housed the Museu d'Art de Catalunya since 1934, was declared a national museum in 1990 under the Museums Law passed by the Catalan Government. ER -