MAC/CCB: Lisbon's Museum of Contemporary Art

The Same Building, a New Name

If you searched for the Berardo Collection Museum, you found the right place. That museum became MAC/CCB in 2023, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Centre at the Centro Cultural de Belém. The Berardo Collection did not go anywhere. It is one of four collections shown here, and its 20th-century works fill the permanent show 'An Atlantic Drift'.

The practical facts have not changed with the name. The museum opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:30 and closes on Mondays, with the last admission at 18:00. A ticket costs €15 for all contemporary art and architecture exhibitions, and the MAC/CCB ticket stays valid for 2 days. If contemporary art is your reason for crossing the city, the guide to art museums in Lisbon puts this museum next to the Gulbenkian Museum and CAM so you can compare collections and closed days.

Prices and Who Pays Less

The MAC/CCB Museum Ticket costs €15 and covers all contemporary art and architecture exhibitions. It includes entrance, all exhibitions and free wi-fi, and remains valid for 2 days, so you can split the visit across two days. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before.

Ages 7 to 18, students, visitors 65 and over, visitors with reduced mobility and Lisboa Card holders all get 20% off. Residents in Portugal get 50% off at the desk in person with ID. Entry is free for children under 6, unemployed visitors, ICOM members and CCB Card holders, and residents in Portugal enter free every Sunday until 14:00. Tourists have no free day at this museum. If free entry is what you are hunting, the page on free museums in Lisbon lists the places that cost nothing on any day.

Price Table

The figures below come from the CCB museum information page, so you can match the visitor type to the price before you queue.

Hours, Last Entry and the Closed Day

MAC/CCB opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:30 and closes on Mondays. The last admission is at 18:00, half an hour before the doors shut, so arriving much later than that means coming back the next day. The MAC/CCB ticket is valid for 2 days.

Monday is the main closure day across Lisbon's museums. MAC/CCB, the National Coach Museum, the Fado Museum and the Puppet Museum (Marioneta) all shut, along with most other national and municipal sites. In Belém, Tuesday is the day MAAT and MACAM close. A Belém art day therefore works best from Wednesday to Sunday, when all three contemporary art museums are open at once.

Four Collections, Big Names

MAC/CCB shows modern and contemporary art from the 1970s onward, drawn from four collections: the State Contemporary Art Collection, the Teixeira de Freitas Collection, the Ellipse Collection and the Berardo Collection. That last name is the reason many visitors still search for the Berardo museum, and the collection is very much on display.

The household names are all represented. Picasso, Duchamp, Miró and Warhol hang here, alongside Paula Rego, Helena Almeida and Cindy Sherman. Two permanent shows carry the display. 'May I Help You? Posso Ajudar?' presents art from the 1970s on, and 'An Atlantic Drift' shows 20th-century works from the Berardo Collection. For Portuguese modern art, the Gulbenkian Museum and CAM, the Modern Collection, make a second stop.

On the Calendar

Three temporary exhibitions sit on top of the permanent displays. Ângela Ferreira runs until 28 Feb 2027. Frida Orupabo runs until 1 Nov 2026. The Maruja Mallo show, part of Mostra Espanha 2026, runs from 15 Sep to 29 Nov 2026.

A €15 ticket covers all of them, and the MAC/CCB ticket is valid for 2 days. If your dates fall outside these runs, check the CCB programme before travelling. A new wing, the Pavilhão Julião Sarmento, is named inside the CABE ticket, and no opening date is published.

Reopened in the South Garage

MAC/CCB is a museum of contemporary art and architecture, and the Architecture Centre reopened in April 2025 in the CCB south garage. Check the CCB programme for what is on there during your visit.

One ticket covers it. The €15 price applies to all contemporary art and architecture exhibitions, and the MAC/CCB ticket includes access to all exhibitions.

One Ticket, Four Museums, 90 Days

CABE is the combined ticket for Belém's contemporary art cluster. It covers MAAT, MAC/CCB, the Pavilhão Julião Sarmento and MACAM. The pass gives 20% off at each venue and stays valid for 90 days, so you can spread four visits across a long trip rather than cramming them into one day.

The Lisboa Card works differently. It gives 20% off at MAC/CCB, alongside free entry to a long list of other museums and unlimited public transport, which matters in Belém because the tram and train connections are covered too. Prices start at €31 for 24 hours and run to €62 for 72 hours. To compare the two, see the Lisboa Card for Museums page, and note that the Money Museum (Dinheiro) and MUDE sit outside the card's discount list entirely.

Transport and a Belém Art Day

The address is Praça do Império, Centro Cultural de Belém, 1449-003 Lisboa. Tram 15E stops nearby, CP trains stop at Belém station, and bus 729 serves the CCB directly, with buses 714, 727, 728 and 751 stopping by the Jerónimos Monastery. The Lisboa Card covers all of them.

Belém packs several museums into a small area. MACAM, the Armando Martins Contemporary Art Museum on Rua da Junqueira, is the newest addition to the CABE group and sits in an ex-palace, and the MAAT galleries are also in Belém. Watch the closed days when you chain them together. MAC/CCB shuts on Mondays, while MAAT and MACAM shut on Tuesdays, so a three-museum art day works from Wednesday to Sunday. For a different flavour on the same day, the National Coach Museum and Museu de Marinha are also in Belém, and the Lisboa Story Centre is on Praça do Comércio.