Located on the River Tagus (Rio Tejo) in the city of Lisbon the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) is a 21st-century cultural hub for creative works traversing art, architecture, and technology. Designed by Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A), MAAT has been described as “one of Europe’s most lyrical new museums.”
Envisioned as an immersive experience, the museum’s roof line carries through to the interior leading visitors down a ramp from the entrance to the Oval Gallery. The enveloping nature of the subterranean rooms with curving white walls is ripe for exploring future iterations of emergent technologies with art and design.
Since its opening in 2016, MAAT has featured works by national and international artists including Lawrence Winder, Adriano Olivetti, Alexandre Farto (Vhils), and Cabrita Reis. In 2017 the museum was shortlisted for the EU Mies van der Rohe Prize
“an open-ended and transformative relationship between cultural institutions and societal change, the museum simultaneously interrogates and celebrates the intellectual ambitions and the creative means through which we imagine (with art), inhabit (with architecture) and create (with technology) the world we live in — that is, the ways in which we constantly redesign our collective undertakings in respect of the planetary ecosystem we belong to.”
– MAAT
MAAT is operated by the Fundação EDP, the non-profit social and cultural arm of Energias de Portugal (EDP, formerly Electricidade de Portugal).
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