MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM - MACAM - About

MACAM
– the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum in Alita, a non-for-profit
museum dedicated to preserving, documenting and promoting art in the
country has transformed a factory complex into a dynamic museum with a
wide outreach.
The museum encourages art appreciation through educational guided tours,
passes knowledge through its unique art education program for school
children, and fosters creativity through its yearly competitions and
various workshops. Art is Life.
As a research and teaching institution the museum revives art memory,
stimulates research in its rich library/archives, preserves contemporary
art which is ephemeral and raises awareness of our shared art heritage
through permanent and periodic exhibitions. Art Lives Here.
The museum’s unique one level, four thousand square meters space,
welcomes special-need children, the blind and visually impaired. Museum
for Everyone.
The vast serene nature around the museum invites for various outdoor
activities, rebooting all the senses in Art & Nature Camping that
includes art and craft workshops to the youth. Respire in Nature,
Inspire in Art.
MACAM’s role as an active cultural actor in the country, functioning as a
platform for social issues, dedicates every year to a human right in
its Human Rights Program that includes many activities planned to raise
awareness about human rights. Know Your Rights and Protect them.