Open 363 days per year, the MAC offers an eclectic programme of visual art, theatre, dance, family workshops and lots more.

[1] Designed by Belfast-based architectural practice Hackett Hall McKnight, the MAC sits on a roughly trapezium-shaped site opposite St Anne's Cathedral.

The building, completed in February 2012, consists of a number of intersecting brick volumes and a basalt tower topped with three stories of glazing.

[1][9] The work was jointly commissioned by the MAC and The Thomas Devlin Fund, a charity set up in memory of murdered teenager Thomas Devlin,[9][10] and consists of 400 copper strands in a spectrum of colours reaching from a high window down to the first floor.

[11] Anne McReynolds, Chief Executive of the MAC, said the aim was “to commission an artwork that would comment on The Thomas Devlin Fund’s commitment to highlighting the futility of violence as well as the hopes and aspirations of our young people”, and artist Mark Garry stated that he “wanted to create a work that is positive and hopeful”.