Between tranquility and setbacks, we review the list of Catalan museum directors who are leaving and those who have just arrived in a 2026 full of changes.

The director of the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), Pepe Serra, can now speak about the long-awaited expansion of the museum, months after the Supreme Court ruling that obliges the institution to return the murals from the chapter house of the Sijena Monastery became a full-time job. In this interview with ARA, in addition to discussing the museum's expansion, which will have a budget of 122 million euros, he addresses for the first time the appointment of Manuel Borja-Villel by the Department of Culture, initially to serve as an advisor on the expansion. The museum will close the first floor of modern and contemporary art for the expansion starting in 2027, while it hopes to keep the ground floor, dedicated to Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance art, open.

Four months after the State understood, the future of Casa Gomis as a cultural facility is beginning to take shape: the home designed by architect Antonio Bonet Castellana will be a house museum managed by the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC). It is scheduled to open in 2026, coinciding with Barcelona becoming UNESCO's World Capital of Architecture and the Catalan capital hosting the International Union of Architects' World Congress of Architecture for the second time. As the Ministry of Culture and the museum announced in a statement this Friday, the MNAC team will be responsible for the cultural programming of Casa Gomis, classified as a cultural asset of national interest (BCIN). Furthermore, the Ministry of Culture will be responsible for any necessary renovation and maintenance work.