{"id":599,"date":"2017-09-08T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vacalia.com\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2024-02-14T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T10:50:07","slug":"museums-palma-de-mallorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vacalia.com\/blog\/en\/museums-palma-de-mallorca\/","title":{"rendered":"Museums in Palma de Mallorca"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palma de Mallorca is, no doubt, one of the most cosmopolita cities of the whole Mediterranean Sea. Its long bay, crowded streets, or the wide leisure opportunities that both locals both tourists find in it, are just some of the wonders of this city.<\/p>\n

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Besides, not just in Palma, but the whole island is filled with one of its main special thing: its culture. Each year thousand of artists decide to visit it or stay in it and love it forever.<\/p>\n

Picasso, Mir\u00f3, Chopin, Leonard Cohne… These are just some of the names that have filled the majorcan streets through the years with its pieces and presence. No wonder then that art is one of the most preciated relics for the Majorcans.<\/p>\n

One of the easiest ways to see the art\u2019s path in Majorca is through the museus. Truth is, we\u2019ll find decens around the island but, in this post, we\u2019d like to focus in some museums from Palma.<\/p>\n

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Museu Fundaci\u00f3 Juan March | Museums in Palma de Mallorca<\/h2>\n

Some of the most representative authors from 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century Spain are represented in this museum (Picasso, Mir\u00f3, Juan Gris, Dal\u00ed…) with permanent collections, such as other temporary expositions dedicated to modernist pieces.<\/p>\n

The gorgeous building that hosts this museum in Palma de Mallorca is a wonder for the locals; not just for the amount of pieces of art that helds, but also for the charming and modern architectures that surrounds it.<\/p>\n

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Fundaci\u00f3 Pilar i Joan Mir\u00f3 | Museums in Palma de Mallorca<\/h2>\n

Fundaci\u00f3 Pilar i Joan Mir\u00f3 was born as Joan Mir\u00f3 personal workspace and was given, along all the pices of art and other objects to the Foundation that they created to spread the art and its creation in an inmitate space connected with the contemporaneity.<\/p>\n

Mir\u00f3 wanted to help other artists by letting them a private space to develop their painting, music or writting.<\/p>\n

Nowadays the Fundaci\u00f3 Pilar i Joan Mir\u00f3 is more than a school open to artists, it\u2019s also a museum where we can discover his masterpieces, technichs and the enviroment that sorrounded him.<\/p>\n

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Es Baluard | Museums in Palma de Mallorca<\/h2>\n

Es Baluard is a Modern and Contemporaneal Art Museum located in Palma that has more than 600 pieces of Balearic or International artists. Expositions, conferences and all kind of creative activities are perfomed to awake the cultural interest in everyone that visit it.<\/p>\n

The building is from the XVI Century and was born as a defense tower, though it was not until 1997 that its lands were given to Palma\u2019s council to build Es Blauard Museu d\u2019Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma.<\/p>\n

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CaixaForum Palma | Museums in Palma de Mallorca<\/h2>\n

This museum belongs to Fundaci\u00f3n La Caixa and was founded in 1993 in a modernist hotel created by the cataln architect Dom\u00e9nech i Montaner. In 1987 the building was recovered by Fundaci\u00f3 La Caixa after some damages from the Civil War and the dictatorship. Nowadays it helds a permanent exposition by Anglada-Camarasa, besides temporary expositions, library, video-library and a newspaper archive.<\/p>\n

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Museum of Mallorca | Museums from Palma de Mallorca<\/h2>\n

The Museum of Mallorca can be found in Casal de Can Aiamans, a building made by Miquel Llu\u00eds Ballester de Togores i Salas in 1634 that helds different collections based in archeology, fine arts, ethnography, decoration and industry<\/p>\n

The house has a barrocan style with gothic and islamic pieces that have lasted along the different centuries.<\/p>\n

The museum wants to foment the cultural and scientific knowledge through its different expositions that want to show the multiple changes that the island has suffered along the different centuries.<\/p>\n

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Museu d\u2019Hist\u00f2ria de la Ciutat | Museums in Palma de Mallorca<\/h2>\n

This building can be found in the emlemathic Castell de Bellver which is a Majorcan \u00a0monument itself.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s located 3km away from the center of Palma, in top of a small mountain with sea-views. Along its history it\u2019s served as royal residence, militar prison, money factury and, finally, as History of the City Museum.<\/p>\n

In it we\u2019ll find different permanent collections such as: Palma\u2019s Urban evolution, Despuig collection or Jovellanos Room, besides from other temporal collections. There\u2019re also other cultural activities that are made every once in a while to share the history of Palma with its visitors.<\/p>\n

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