MAMM Fest Medellín 2026: Lineup, Tickets, Dates, Hours

MAMM Fest Medellin 2026 kicked off Friday, August 14, and runs through Sunday, August 16, as the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM) empties its exhibition halls for its first-ever music-and-art festival. Four collectives and more than 30 artists are playing cumbia, house, funk, experimental sound, and reggaeton inside and around the museum in Ciudad del Río — about 20 minutes on foot from El Poblado — alongside food trucks and a design market, according to Vivir en El Poblado and Farándula.co.

What is MAMM Fest?

It’s the museum’s first attempt at reframing itself as a festival venue rather than just a place to look at art. Over three days, MAMM’s usually-quiet white-cube galleries become stages and gathering spaces for the museum’s first-ever festival edition. The concept, according to Radio Nacional de Colombia (Universidad Nacional), is to pull in audiences who wouldn’t normally set foot in a contemporary art museum and give them a reason to come back for the exhibitions once the music stops.

The lineup: four collectives, 30+ artists

MAMM Fest is organized around four local collectives rather than a traditional headliner bill, per Vivir en El Poblado and Farándula.co:

• Avant-Garde — experimental and sound-art-leaning sets
• Bien Bueno — disco, funk, and house
• Perro Negro — reggaeton and urban sounds
• Mucha Cumbia — cumbia and Latin percussion

Together they bring more than 30 artists across the weekend, spread over the museum’s various rooms and its outdoor plaza. The weekend closes with Bingo Bailable, a dance-and-bingo session — not a sixth collective, but a dedicated closing format mixing music, dance, and games for all ages, per Radio Nacional de Colombia.

MAMM Fest Medellin 2026 tickets and hours

As of August 14, 2026, per MAMM’s official programming page, day tickets run COP 35,000-130,000 and the full three-day pass is COP 245,000. Single-day festival tickets are priced separately for each day:

• Friday, August 14: COP 35,000 (about USD $11)
• Saturday, August 15: COP 130,000 (about USD $42)
• Sunday, August 16: COP 80,000 (about USD $26)
• Full three-day pass: COP 245,000 (about USD $78)

That three-day pass is exactly the sum of the three single-day prices (35,000 + 130,000 + 80,000) — it carries no discount, so it buys convenience (one ticket, no re-entry math) rather than savings.

MAMM’s programming page also sells cheaper single-performance tickets for August 15-16, priced by collective: Bien Bueno (Aug 15, COP 50,000), Perro Negro (Aug 15, COP 100,000), Mucha Cumbia (Aug 16, COP 50,000), and the closing Bailatón y bingo session (Aug 16, COP 50,000) — a cheaper entry point than a full day pass if you only want to catch one act.

Those USD figures are rough conversions using the COP 3,132.42-per-dollar rate Colombia’s peso hit on July 31, 2026 — check MAMM’s site for the current peso price and today’s exchange rate before buying, since both can move. Ticket prices for multi-day festivals like this often shift as single days sell out, so confirm current pricing and availability directly on MAMM’s website before buying.

MAMM listed its hours as 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on August 14, 2026, per the museum’s site — that reflects the day it was checked rather than a published standing schedule, and festival programming is expected to run later into the evening on at least some nights. Check MAMM’s channels for the exact set times each day.

Food, design, and a market in the plaza

Outside the galleries, MAMM’s plaza fills out the festival with food trucks, the Mercado AntiTattoo — a pop-up featuring roughly 25 independent art and design projects — and Rareza, a separate market for author-made clothing, upcycled pieces, and analog goods, per Vivir en El Poblado’s coverage. It’s the kind of program that reads more like a design-and-food fair wrapped around a concert than a conventional gallery opening.

It’s also the museum’s big annual fundraiser

MAMM Fest doubles as MAMM’s annual fundraising event, with proceeds going toward the museum’s exhibition programming, research, heritage conservation, and education work, according to Radio Nacional de Colombia and Farándula.co. Per Vivir en El Poblado’s reporting, a portion of ticket sales is also earmarked for Museo La Tertulia, MAMM’s sister museum in Cali, to support that museum’s recovery efforts after Colombia’s recent earthquakes — that detail appears only in that outlet’s coverage, so confirm with MAMM directly if it factors into your decision to buy a ticket. It’s a similar spirit to other one-off Medellín fundraisers this year, like Lotus Rooftop’s Cena con Propósito dinner for Venezuela earthquake relief.

Getting there

MAMM sits at Carrera 44 #19A-100 in Ciudad del Río, per the museum’s own site — the neighborhood wedged between El Poblado and the Río Medellín. It’s roughly a 20-minute walk downhill from Parque Lleras toward the river (uphill on the way back), or a quick taxi or app-based ride from anywhere in El Poblado. By metro, Ciudad del Río sits between the Industriales and Poblado stations — MAMM’s site doesn’t publish transit directions, so budget a short walk from either stop. If you’re stacking this into a bigger weekend, it slots in well after a rooftop happy hour — see our rundown of El Poblado’s best rooftop bars. Medellín’s concert calendar has been packed this year, from stadium shows like the Feria de las Flores Súper Concierto to smaller festival formats like this one.

MAMM Fest 2026: quick FAQ

How much are tickets? Single-day prices range from COP 35,000 to COP 130,000 depending on the day, with a full three-day pass at COP 245,000 (the exact sum of the three days, so no discount) and cheaper single-performance tickets for August 15-16 from COP 50,000, per MAMM’s official programming page.

What time does it start? MAMM’s site showed 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on August 14, 2026 — that was a same-day “open today” reading, not a published festival schedule. Evening programming is expected to run later; check MAMM’s channels for exact set times.

Where is it? At the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Carrera 44 #19A-100, in Ciudad del Río — about a 20-minute walk downhill from Parque Lleras, or a short walk from the Industriales or Poblado metro stations.

Who’s playing? Four local collectives — Avant-Garde, Bien Bueno, Perro Negro, and Mucha Cumbia — bringing more than 30 artists across cumbia, house, funk, experimental sound, and reggaeton, closing with the Bingo Bailable dance-and-bingo session.

The bottom line

MAMM Fest 2026 is a genuinely new event on Medellín’s calendar — three days, four collectives, 30-plus artists, and a museum betting that music and design can pull in an audience contemporary art alone hasn’t. It runs through Sunday, August 16, in Ciudad del Río, with single-day and full-pass tickets available through MAMM’s website; confirm exact hours and remaining ticket availability before heading over.

Sources: Event details per Vivir en El Poblado, Farándula.co, and Radio Nacional de Colombia; ticket pricing, address, and hours per MAMM’s official programming page, checked August 14, 2026; USD conversions per Colombia’s July 31, 2026 exchange-rate low.