The show hanging at the MuCAC right now comes down on 30 April 2027, a published expiry date that is unusual for a museum’s main display. The entrance is at Paseo de Reding, 1, which is one site and not two different places, whatever the council files suggest.
What is the MuCAC in Malaga? The contemporary art centre at the La Coracha site, entered from Paseo de Reding 1, beside La Malagueta. The show hanging now is Ayer. Colección 1940-1990, curated by Salvador Nadales, which opened in April 2025 and closes on 30 April 2027, drawing on works by more than 70 Spanish artists.
The timetable is 10:00 to 20:00, Tuesday to Sunday, and the council states “free access” in plain words. Its sheet 129 files the same address under a different museum name, and the second site people expect, the Mercado de Mayoristas, is not a second site at all.
The show hanging until April 2027
What is inside is not a permanent collection in the usual sense but a reading of the municipal collection, with a start and an end date.
The exhibition is titled “Ayer. Colección 1940-1990. I Relectura de la Colección” and runs from 25 April 2025 to 30 April 2027.
The council describes its scope as “a series of significant milestones in our country, with a particular eye on the artistic and cultural fabric of Malaga and Andalusia, from 1940 to the early 1990s”, drawing on “a selection of works by more than 70 Spanish artists”, curated by Salvador Nadales.
Worth noting the closing date, because 30 April 2027 changes what is on the walls, not the building itself.
One site, not three
The site question is worth pinning down, because it usually circulates in the plural. The official sheet describes one site, La Coracha, and places its entrance at Paseo de Reding, 1, which is the address of the former municipal heritage museum.
La Coracha and Paseo de Reding are therefore not two different places but one entrance described two ways.
As for the planned site in the old Mercado de Mayoristas, in the Soho, no official sheet with hours or an opening date was found, so this article sets no timetable for it. The neighbourhood and its street art are covered in Soho street art.
Three answers on one sheet
| Museum | Closing day | Latest closing time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| MuCAC, La Coracha | Monday | 8pm | Free access |
| Jorge Rando Museum | Sunday | 8pm in winter, 9pm in summer | Free entry |
| Roman theatre | Monday | Varies by season | Free entry |
The council listing gives the museum its full name, “Museo Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga (MuCAC sede la Coracha)”, the timetable “Tuesday to Sunday, 10h to 20h”, and the line that settles the money question: “free access”. The contact details it publishes are a phone number and an email, both in the questions at the end of this page.
Set against the city’s other permanently free options, the useful difference is the closing day rather than the price: the MuCAC and the Roman theatre rest on Monday, the Jorge Rando Museum on Sunday.
The Monday closure is the practical break with the museum that came before, and it puts the MuCAC with the majority of city museums rather than with the seven-day openers such as the music museum.
The summer timetable published under the other name
One doorway on Paseo de Reding, 1 carries two municipal listings under two different names. Alongside the MuCAC sheet, the council’s facilities directory keeps sheet 129, headed “Museo del Patrimonio Municipal (MUPAM)”, with the same address, the same Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 8pm, and the same office number, 951 928 710, beside a switchboard on 951 926 052.
Neither sheet refers to the other, so a visitor searching for MUPAM and a visitor searching for MuCAC arrive at the same door without knowing it. Which of the two names is current is not settled here, because the council does not settle it.
The practical cost of that split falls in August. The culture department’s own MUPAM page publishes a summer timetable running 1 July to 31 August, in two blocks of 10am to 2pm and 5.30pm to 9.30pm, against the continuous 10am to 8pm that applies from 1 September to 30 June. It also states that entry closes 30 minutes before the doors do.
Anyone planning an August afternoon from the MuCAC sheet alone will read 8pm and turn up at 3pm, which is precisely when the building is shut. The MUPAM sheet also carries an accessibility line the MuCAC one lacks: “it has access for people with reduced mobility”.
Free, on a coast where that is unusual
Malaga has few permanently free museums. Most of the rest compensate with scattered windows that collide with one another on Sunday afternoons.
With free access from Tuesday to Sunday until 8pm, the MuCAC joins the short list of places that do not force a choice of hour, alongside the Jorge Rando Museum and the Roman theatre.
The wider map of no-cost hours in the city is in free museums in Malaga, and a whole day built without a ticket desk is in free things to do in Malaga.
What the old CAC was, in two lines
The CAC Málaga ran for twenty-one years in the old wholesale market building in the Soho under private management, and closed in September 2024 when the council took the space over and merged it with the municipal heritage museum.
That history matters here for one reason only: it explains why so many English-language listings still describe a free museum in the Soho that no longer operates under that name.
Fitting it into a walk along La Malagueta
Entering from Paseo de Reding puts the museum at the start of La Malagueta, a short walk from the port and the urban beach axis.
That makes it easy to chain with the sequence in what to see in Malaga and with the two-day plan in Malaga in two days, which already passes through the area.
Because it shuts on Mondays, keep it for any other day. Three practical notes close the visit:
- Monday is out, so pair that day with the popular arts museum, which has a free morning slot of its own.
- No ticket desk applies, since access is free every open day until 8pm.
- No transport decision applies either, because the entrance is walkable from the centre, the exception across the province in getting around Malaga.
Frequently asked questions about the MuCAC
Where is the MuCAC in Malaga?
At the La Coracha site, entered from Paseo de Reding, 1, beside La Malagueta. The council publishes the contact number as (+34) 951 92 87 10, with info.mucac@malaga.eu as the email.
What is on show at the MuCAC right now?
A collection re-reading titled Ayer. Colección 1940-1990, curated by Salvador Nadales, which opened in April 2025 and closes on 30 April 2027 and draws on works by more than 70 Spanish artists.
What are the MuCAC opening hours?
Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 8pm, according to the municipal sheet for the La Coracha site. That means it closes on Mondays, unlike the CAC before it, and the afternoon runs through to eight.
When does the Mayoristas site in the Soho open?
No official sheet with opening hours or a date was found for that second site, so this article makes no claim about it. Everything published here refers to the La Coracha site.
Is the MuCAC in Malaga free?
Yes. The Ayuntamiento de Málaga sheet for the La Coracha site publishes free access with no time slots and no conditions, which answers the question left hanging when the old CAC was taken into municipal hands.
A museum that changed its name, its owner and its calendar, and still charges nothing at the door.