Centre Pompidou Málaga, Modern art museum in Port District, Málaga, Spain

The Centre Pompidou Málaga sits within the Cube building at the port, located between Docks 1 and 2, and displays contemporary artworks across multiple floors. A colored glass cube sits atop the roof, creating a distinctive landmark visible from the waterfront.

This branch opened in 2015 as the first international location of the Paris-based Centre Pompidou outside France. The project grew from a partnership between the port city and the Paris institution to bring contemporary art to the waterfront.

The semi-permanent displays change roughly every two and a half years and are curated by Brigitte Léal of the Paris museum. The opening hang, "La Colección" (2015–2017), grouped about 90 works into five themed rooms, among them Frida Kahlo's "El marco" (1938) and Francis Bacon's "Autorretrato" (1971). Its successor, "Utopías modernas" (2017–2020), added six chapters and works such as Tatlin's tower model and Malevich's "Sensación de Peligro".

The museum is accessible by several bus lines and sits directly at the port with easy walking access. Plan to spend one to two hours here, depending on how much time you want to spend with the exhibitions.

The cube-shaped skylight of steel and glass that crowns the roof gives the building its name, El Cubo. In 2015 Daniel Buren installed 'Incubé' there, and the city council bought the work in 2017; it became the institution's emblem in the city skyline.