HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM

From October 2023 until its closure on 27 June 2025, the collection was exhibited in the historic Casa Garriga Nogués building in the centre of Barcelona. Once the collection was presented as a museum open to everyone, its mission became more explicit: namely, to transform episodes of censorship into an example of a social and collective power that expressed itself through its own opinions.

The innovative character of this museum lay in the fact that it displayed banned works alongside others that had been attacked for similar reasons or ideological constraints, so that together they traced the geopolitical map of censorship; and in the fact that the works were accompanied by multimedia information that documented the development of each case of censorship, to such an extent that the volume of reactions sometimes exceeded that of the artworks themselves.

The Museu de l’Art Prohibit thus became a key reference space for understanding the effects of censorship and its mutations, including memetic production, a widespread way of disseminating content amid fierce diatribes.

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