MIAU: the museum without walls that reconciled the neighbors of Fanzara

Should art live only within the walls of a museum? The answer to this question can be found in Fanzara, a small town in the Sierra de Espadán that, in recent years, has placed itself on all the street art maps with the MIAU project (Museo Inacabado de Arte Urbano). The initiative, which emerged as a vehicle for the reconciliation and coexistence of the town’s neighbors, who had been at loggerheads for years over the project to build a landfill in the area, is halfway between an urban art project and a social experiment.

MIAU Fanzara began with only 5 facades donated by the city council to capture their interventions. Five years later, most of the streets of the town have some work, totaling more than 150 interventions by 73 artists. And the thing does not stop, since this is a project in constant evolution. Each year a new festival is held in which more and more murals emerge that any visitor can contemplate completely free and open.