The first edition of MACA Parking Club, selected in the CERCLES call by IVAJ and the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community, was a pilot project that opened the museum doors to adolescents from a fresh and disruptive perspective. Far from the conventional visit, the proposal transformed the spaces of MACA—including its parking lot—into a creative laboratory where the everyday became art and where young people could reclaim the museum as a place of their own.

The images from this edition reflect a process full of energy and freedom: graphic interventions that overflowed the paper to occupy walls and frames; collective collages and self-portraits constructed with irony and humor; installations that mixed everyday objects with cultural symbols; improvised performances in the museum halls, where participants rewrote scenes based on works by artists such as Joan Miró; and actions in public space that brought the experience outside the halls.

Parking Club established itself from its first edition as a horizontal meeting space, where each participant found an active and creative role. The methodology, based on experimentation and collaborative work, allowed adolescents to express themselves through multiple languages—from audiovisual to graphic, from installation to performance—and to explore questions of identity, memory, power and image in dialogue with contemporary art.

The result was much more than a series of artistic productions: a space of trust and belonging was generated, a cultural club in which young people could experiment, make mistakes, play and create without hierarchies, reaffirming that the museum can be a living, open place in constant transformation.

The third edition of 2025, carried out in collaboration with the "la Caixa" Foundation, marked an important milestone: the participants were responsible for designing the graphic identity of the La Liada Gráfica festival, held at the Las Cigarreras Cultural Center on June 6 and 7. There, in addition to presenting their own works, they shared space with independent artists and publishers, actively integrating themselves into the city's cultural ecosystem. This leap from the workshop to the public space represented a symbolic and real recognition: their graphic voices were heard, exhibited, and valued in a professional and community framework.

After the mandatory pause caused by the pandemic, the project consolidated itself in 2024 and 2025 as an ongoing process with strong territorial roots. In these editions, young people from the Gastón Castelló Community Social Center participated, coming from the neighborhoods of Virgen del Remedio and Juan XXIII, two areas marked by contexts of vulnerability, but also by intense community and cultural life.

During ten sessions, the participants went through a creative itinerary that encompassed all phases of a graphic design project: from the conceptualization of ideas to final production and public presentation. In this process they worked with diverse techniques—screen printing, illustration, collage, experimental typography—, always from a participatory and collaborative methodology that placed the voice of young people at the center.

MACA proposes a series of activities designed to end the week in a creative way and explore MACA's collections. A way to discover other possible visits and take ownership of the museum space.

All activities are designed to deepen basic knowledge of contemporary art and its manifestations in a dynamic and fun way.

Based on a selection of works and artists, we aim to generate critical and creative thinking in participants, teach them to think the way artists do, and provide them with tools that allow them to express ideas and feelings through various artistic languages.

Macaextraescolar is a monthly activity that will take place on Fridays from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM. It is aimed at children between 6 and 12 years old in small groups who will attend without adult supervision.

THIS [NO] IS A BOOK, a new activity for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante (MACA), on the occasion of the temporary exhibition TEXT [NO TEXT] Books and Artist Publications. Universitat Politècnica de València Collection. It is a project through which anyone who wants to participate (yes, YOU TOO!) will be able to create an Artist's Book based on a series of literary, visual, photographic and visual activities that we will publish in a dossier and that will serve as a guide and content for this artistic creation.

This is an activity that is not exclusive to any group, we insist. Our intention is for it to be global, inclusive and intergenerational, that it can be done at home, individually or as a family, in educational or social centers, by different groups of any kind and, of course, by artists. Although, as we usually say, we are all creators, we are all artists!

In light of the circumstances we are experiencing and that everyone already knows about, the project will initially be carried out outside the museum, but we will monitor all the creations you send us, to publish them on our networks, and to be able to show the results of an activity that, we guarantee you, will be creative and also a lot of fun.

In this link you will find the complete guide of activities so you can start creating your [NO] book.

«Altre Temps» is a visit that will transport you to another time.

Exploring the works and artists of the Mediterranean Foundation Collection of the MACA is like stopping the sands and hands of clocks, because this experience will take each participant beyond the timeline. Sometimes, you will feel that you are in the past, at other times you will be aware of your present, and almost always, reflection will lead you to direct your gaze toward the future.

During this tour, you will have references and inspiration from

artists such as Joan Brossa, Carmen Calvo, Miquel Barceló, Antoni Tàpies, among others. Each step will be filled with reflection,

creativity and emotion. «Altre Temps» is a free and inclusive activity, aimed at all people and groups. Our objective is to make the museum accessible to all citizens.

In this tour, we question traditional gender roles

in contemporary art with the aim of fostering critical and reflective thinking, generating a dialogue around new codes of communication and representation. We seek to broaden visitors' perspectives to promote a critical view and provide a clearer and more accurate vision of reality.

The tour focuses on addressing the value of diversity, detecting

prejudices, exploring identity and understanding what organizes our

society from multiple perspectives. Through the exploration of contemporary artworks that challenge gender norms, we want to invite visitors to rethink gender categories and to participate in a broader conversation about inclusion and equality in art and in society.

This tour offers an immersion into the world of artists who

reflect on and interpret the portrait genre through various artistic languages, addressing vital aspects of great relevance in formal education such as identity, personality development, and the choice of an external image that is shown to others.

Art is revealed as a powerful intercultural tool, with unlimited possibilities that make it a key resource in education in values such as diversity, equality, and dignity. Through art, students can learn about the customs and behaviors predominant in other cultures, fostering intercultural dialogue and generating new realities and

perspectives.

It is a mediation project aimed at groups with different abilities, functional diversity or at risk of social exclusion, to motivate, discover and learn through art by providing them with the possibilities of contemporary creation and reflection

offered by MACA, for their enjoyment and improvement of living and leisure conditions.

SORPRENDE is much more than a conventional guided tour, it is about immersing yourself in MACA's 20th Century Art Collection which, by the way, is one of the greatest artistic treasures of this city. An ideal place to learn, discover, be inspired and, above all, be surprised. This visit will be accompanied by an easy-to-read notebook that rediscovers artists and works from a different perspective, with an approach that starts from the playful to reach the pedagogical and, of course, emphasizing inclusion.

This tour proposes an approach to artists who reflect on and interpret the genre of portraiture with different artistic languages to address various vital aspects of great interest in formal education, such as identity, the development of personality, and the choice of an external image to present to others.

The possibilities that art offers as an intercultural tool are unlimited, being a key resource in education in values such as diversity, equality, and dignity, helping to understand customs and behaviors predominant in other cultures, promoting dialogue and generating new realities.