ART on view 66 A New Museum of World Cultures for Barcelona FIGS. 3a & b (right): Reliquary guardian figure. Fang, Okak subgroup, Equatorial Guinea. Wood. H: 36 cm. MCMB, Folch Collection, MEB CF 169. © MCMB. Photo: Jordi Puig. The community of tribal art aficionados in Barcelona is pleased, and so will be many of the other 1,600,000 inhabitants of the city and the more than 7,000,000 tourists who pass through it every year. The city’s cultural environment has been enriched by the addition of the new Museu de Cultures del Món de Barcelona (MCMB), which opened its doors right on schedule on February 7, 2015. It represents a remarkable achievement for a city whose budget for culture programming has suffered significantly during the recent economic crisis and among whose population a sensitivity for the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas has only recently found voice in local politics. Hoping to attract a large number of visitors, the MCMB occupies two jewels of medieval architecture, the Palau Marquès de Llió and the Palau Nadal—the latter home to the Museu Barbier-Mueller d’Art Precolombí until September 2012—which have been joined together through discrete renovations. The new museum is also sit- By Elena Martínez-Jacquet FIG. 1 (above): Reliquary guardian figure. Fang, Ntumu subgroup, Equatorial Guinea. Wood. H: 38 cm. MCMB, Folch Collection, MEB CF 179. © MCMB. Photo: Jordi Puig. FIG. 2 (right): Reliquary guardian figure. Fang, Okak subgroup, Equatorial Guinea. Wood. H: 49 cm. MCMB, Folch Collection, MEB CF 71-5. © MCMB. Photo: Jordi Puig.
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