The Minute Museum presents one minute of city life: 60 seconds of action that took place on the corner of C/Llibretaria and C/de Freneria, Barcelona, at 14:45 on 1st October 2008. The Museum breaks this arbitrary moment into its component parts, lingering over the different senses, exploring the fragmentary mix of people, objects, colours, movement, smells and sounds.

"One can see the world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see."

Giorgio Morandi quoted in Michael Kimmelman: Looking Long and Hard: 2004