The MACS is located inside the Badia Piccola of the Monastery of San Benedetto in via Crociferi in Catania and since 2013 it has been hosting Sicilian, Italian, and international artists, with various exhibitions of figurative contemporary art.

In harmony with the splendid setting that houses it and with the beautiful frescoes of the Church of San Benedetto, attached to the Monastery, the MacS combines the eighteenth-century architectural beauty with the modernity of contemporary art; the museum is in fact the link that starts from the distant baroque pictorial tradition to reach contemporaneity and whose aim is to enhance the cultural assets of the Sicilian heritage, often creating cultural partnerships with equally prestigious historical-artistic institutions, and promoting the knowledge of Italian and international contemporary art by giving space to young emerging talents and established artists.