3 x 3 is conceived as a cultural outreach program, developed together with Extrarradio, which includes elements that are interesting and attractive for groups with functional diversity and/or at risk of social exclusion. The starting point of this project is the MACA's permanent collections as spaces of expression, which provide tools to activate inclusion pathways and routes for social transformation.

We use a working methodology that adapts content and forms of communication to the age, cognitive development, or physical, psychological, sensory, intellectual, or mental characteristics of the participants, promoting personal development and enhancing different capacities.

In all visits, these groups are offered the opportunity to participate in art and culture and come into contact with it, have a voice in the first person, and generate meaningful experiences that stimulate dialogue, reflection, imagination, critical thinking, and the possibility of sharing and participating in the project using all the senses. A project that is always exciting.

With this program of 3 visits to the 3 permanent collections of the museum: the 20th Century Art Collection, the CajaMediterráneo Collection, and the Eusebio Sempere Collection, we propose, starting from the works in these collections, to work to formulate new ones based on experiences and encounters in the museum and in life. We want to start from the concrete, not from abstractions. From the premise of proposing, we initiate individual and collective work that can culminate in an exhibition to show the created work, inviting other audiences to participate in the process carried out and experienced, giving visibility to everything done and valuing the participants as protagonists.

Since October 2012, the MACA launched a program of activities for a group of Alzheimer's patients in collaboration with the Alzheimer's Patient Association of Alicante, sponsored in turn by the Manuel Peláez Foundation and the Provincial Council of Alicante.

First edition: October 2012 – June 2013

-Optical and kinetic art: art in motion. 20th Century Art Collection.

-The representation of women in the 20th Century Art Collection.

-The memory of objects. Self-portrait by Carmen Calvo, Fundación Caja Mediterráneo Collection.

-Eusebio Sempere. The line that dreams, in the Eusebio Sempere Collection.

-Joan Miró. Constellations, based on Miró from the 20th Century Art Collection.

-Inadvertent architecture, Encounters between the DKV Seguros Collection and the Caja Mediterráneo Collection.

-Fernando Sinaga, Ideas K, temporary exhibition.

-By way of reflection, temporary exhibition with works from the Fundación Caja Mediterráneo Collection.

The result of this first edition was reflected in You and I, The Documentary, directed by Alberto Nieto and with the support of the Film Studies Center "Ciudad de la Luz", which was responsible for obtaining all graphic material, recording the visits and collecting testimonies from the two couples featured. All of this with the idea of creating a documentary that today is a reality, thanks to a collaboration agreement between the Film Studies Center Ciudad de la Luz and the Culture Department of the Alicante City Council

In this II edition, the visits tour the exhibition of permanent collections, carefully designed for their enjoyment and understanding, as well as to encourage reactions, reflections, conversations, or activities around art and artists, but also around the sensations and emotions they may provoke.

We visit and work around temporary exhibitions: Palazuelo. Caligrafías musicales, Serigrafías de Ibero-Suiza. Colección UPV, De la naturaleza humana. Colección Fundación Caja Mediterráneo, at the MACA, and José Luis Serzo. Blinki Rotred y el juego de los ajos, and Música, teatro y tradición at Cigarreras Cultura Contemporánea

Furthermore, this project documents the evolution and impact that the program has on participants and a subsequent evaluation of its effectiveness.

We started this edition with a wonderful visit to the temporary exhibition "Telefónica's Cubist Collection". In it we discovered that cubism was more than an avant-garde movement, it was the artistic movement that inaugurated modernity.

Through works by Juan Gris and other cubist artists, whose way of seeing reality offers us a range of imaginative possibilities, we discovered and learned another way of looking.

We related the museum's collections to the folklore that emerges from the Christmas season, through a workshop in which the traditions underlying collective memory are rescued. And we began a new year with the work of Carmen Calvo, with Mori el Merma by Joan Miró.

We closed this edition with Eusebio Sempere.

The visits tour the exhibition of permanent collections being carefully designed for their enjoyment and understanding as well as to encourage reactions, reflections, conversations or activities around art and artists, but also around the sensations and emotions they may provoke. Furthermore, this project captures the evolution and impact that the program has on participants.

In this edition a change was incorporated in the development of the sessions. A calendar of visits was established for both the Museum and AFA Alicante, which took place from January 15 to June 13, 2016. We had the participation of different art professionals who helped us see art from another point of view.

We began the fifth edition of Reminiscences. Art and Culture against Alzheimer's at the AFA Alicante facilities. We introduced ourselves and through creative, visual, and emotional dynamics, we learned step by step how to make a travel journal where we will collect the experiences lived during all the sessions of the year.

The visits tour the exhibition of the permanent collections being carefully designed for their enjoyment and understanding as well as to encourage reactions, reflections, conversations or activities around art and artists, but also around the sensations and emotions that they may provoke. Furthermore, this project captures the evolution and impact that the program has on the participants.

The visits tour the exhibition of the permanent collections being carefully designed for their enjoyment and understanding as well as to encourage reactions, reflections, conversations or activities around art and artists, but also around the sensations and emotions they may provoke. Furthermore, this project captures the evolution and impact that the program has on participants and a subsequent evaluation of its effectiveness.

In this edition, the Teatro Principal de Alicante opened the doors of this dreamlike space for us so that the talent and magic of Gertrud Gómez and Pepe Bornay could transport us to a place of encounter and remembrance. Also

We approached the work Self-portrait in Palace or The Dog (1970), Las meninas by Equipo Crónica with art, gastronomy and tradition, and with the help of David Martínez and Ernesto Frutos, expert chefs, we managed once again to evoke that reminiscence of the gastronomy of our land. We were left speechless, as we did not know that art could be smelled and eaten.

The work Girl with Cardigan (1958) by Julio López Hernández evoked walks through our park. We held a floral decoration workshop, in which Sandra Zajac and Norma Gil put all their heart into accompanying us on this morning full of dreams, magic, art and memories, whose result was wonderful individual still lifes full of emotions and lots of color, which together formed a true spring garden

We culminated this VII Edition in grand style, remembering Eusebio Sempere through the technique of screen printing.

In this edition we have changed the order of the visits, the first one will take place at the AFA Alicante facilities and we will work around the MACA session. In this way, we will try to ensure that the visits to the museum can bring reminiscences of what was previously worked on.

«A basic necessity is a product or service that is considered essential for people's survival.»

Well yes, in these complicated times, we have heard or read this expression a lot: 'basic necessity'. For us, that is what the Reminiscences project is. Art and Culture against Alzheimer's. And, in this year 2021, it is more necessary than ever. You are more necessary than ever!

Our hope, one more year, is tremendous. Even greater if possible, because this kind of 'relationships' improves with the years. We are very excited to resume activities, with all the pertinent health measures, and without losing even a hint of desire and drive. We will do everything possible and unimaginable to reinvent ourselves and offer our artists sessions that excite and move them.

That is why we have decided to continue bringing the MACA collections to people with Alzheimer's from AFA Alicante in video format and thus, evoke personal experiences and distant memories through art and its artists.