We begin the complementary activities around the new temporary exhibition with the screening of: "Juana Francés, the Hidden Force" by Natalia Molinos and Maxi Velloso.

Friday, October 17, 2025

With the support of Generalitat Valenciana, Culture Department of Alicante and MACA, and in collaboration with Casa Mediterráneo and the support of Espejo de Alicante.

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

«The National Museum of Colombia: The Paradoxes of a Symbolic Laboratory». William A. López Rosas, former director of the National Museum of Colombia.

Other Museums, Other Perspectives is a lecture series in which directors and managers of other museums are invited to speak about their experiences, histories, and knowledge in the management and direction of the museums in which they have worked.

Coordinated by: Isabel Tejeda

With the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Universities and Employment of the Generalitat Valenciana.

Friday, January 23, 2026. Conference led by Mª Jesús Folch in which we propose an analysis of the conceptual foundation and creative process that flows from the works and artistic trajectory of Juana Francés, articulating the discourse through transitions, rather than through closed stages, in constant dialogue with her historical and cultural context and, especially, with her network of influences and relationship with the thinking of figures such as Ortega y Gasset, Machado, Magritte, and Ionesco.

Friday, January 16, 2026. The conference explores the complex relationship that Juana Francés had with feminism and her situation as a woman artist in a system built for and by men

On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Alicante-born artist Juana Francés, the Palabras Mayores group presents the performance Juana and the Observant Beings, a collective creation conceived, produced and realized by the participants in this intergenerational museum project.

Palabras Mayores is a meeting space for people over 60 years old who, every Wednesday, come to the museum to learn, dialogue, display and experiment with contemporary art and culture. A place of creative freedom where vital experience becomes artistic material.

This performance proposes a scenic reinterpretation of Juana Francés' creative process, placing the audience within a mind in constant ferment. As if we were traversing her thoughts, obsessions and questions, the action is articulated in dialogue with the series The Man and the City, one of the artist's most emblematic works, in which she addresses society from dystopia, dehumanization, the alienation of the individual and the tension between matter, body and urban environment.

The so-called Observant Beings—hybrid figures, almost homunculi—inhabit the space as silent, critical and vulnerable witnesses. They observe, surround and question both the action and the audience, inviting shared reflection on the human condition, the city, the passage of time and the contemporary gaze.

The performance is participatory, open to the direct experience of the audience, who cease to be mere spectators to become part of the mental and symbolic atmosphere that runs through the piece.

"The IVAM, an amphibious museum". Other museums, other perspectives is a lecture series in which managers from other museums are invited to speak about their experiences, stories and knowledge in the management and direction of the museums in which they have worked.

Coordinated by: Isabel Tejeda

With the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Universities and Employment of the Valencian Regional Government.

This Easy Reading Screen Printing Manual is a tribute to artists Eusebio Sempere and his partner Abel Martín.
They brought the technique of artistic printing to Spain and were experts in screen printing. In 2023, the 100th anniversary of Eusebio Sempere's birth was celebrated, and this manual is a gift to commemorate it.
The Seri Team has created wonderful designs to remember the artist Eusebio Sempere, who was famous for his works made with screen printing.
This Easy Reading Screen Printing Manual is part of the Pulling the Thread project. This project was selected in 2019 in the Common Place call of the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community.
This manual is made by the Seri Team, which draws and explains the screen printing technique in an easy way. We want all people to be able to learn and enjoy screen printing.
When the Seri Team comes to the museum to seek inspiration, they come accompanied by Ester García and David Gil from Daguten Graphic School of the Neighborhood.
They invent projects like this one. Their commitment to working as a team shows that screen printing is more than just drawing. It is a way of creating a world where everyone is welcome and where we can work together to improve it every day.

[R] PORTRAIT is an artistic education project for Schools with Specific Units of Special Education in Alicante, designed by Ester García Guixot from Extrarradio, which arises from the need to bring art and the MACA closer to the school as an experience as adapted as possible to the specific needs of the participants. In this project we will try to bring the human face in Art closer with activities that contribute to the general cognitive development of students and, especially, in the sensory aspect, so that students can develop a personal balance in terms of feelings and emotions. At the same time, it aims to discover that the world is full of different people with different faces, which make each person different.

May 2012. International Museum Day