Old house located in the municipality of Campos where different art exhibitions are held and also acts as a conference room.
The museum is located in a 17th century house and displays traditional objects from the beginning of the 20th century. Here you can learn about the customs, costumes and tools typical of the rural environment of Mallorca. In one of its rooms the traditional Mallorcan costumes are exhibited, while in another one it is possible to contemplate rooms such as the kitchen and the bedroom, furnished in the Mallorcan style. You can also find precision instruments and woodworking tools.
This new museum is a completely new building enclosed within old Renaissance walls on the seafront promenade. The walls of a small ancient fort known as El Baluard de Sant Pere, set in this lovely enclave in Palma, were a desolate and inhospitable place until very recently. The Museum of Es Baluard's offer is complemented by a wide array of cultural and educational activities. The basic aim of the plan implemented by the museum's team is to disseminate and enhance the collection's potential, while acquainting the public with the museum. Accordingly, tours for groups and associations of all kinds are already available. The new building, which carefully respects the walls enclosing it, consists of a total surface area of 5000 sq. metres and approximately 2500 sq. metres of exhibition spaces. Its architects, Luis and Jaime García-Ruiz, Vicente Tomás and Angel Sánchez-Cantalejo, have designed a white concrete building with clean lines, comprising three floors connected by ramps, skylights and rows of indoor balconies, which allow a play between spaces and heights.
The Museum of Spanish Contemporary Art is on calle Sant Miquel, one of Palma's best known shopping streets, which runs between the Plaza Major square and the Plaza d'Espanya. The museum is closer to the former of these two squares. The Museum of Palma (located in a palace which housed the first March bank) together with the central headquarters in Madrid and the Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca, constitute the Foundation’s network created by the Mallorcan banker Joan March Ordinas. The permanent collection, comprising 69 works, covers contemporary Spanish art from Picasso to Barceló, with a whole room dedicated to the latter. Temporary exhibitions are also organised here
The Espai d’Art Miquela Nicolau art gallery is located in Felanitx and occupies a 19th century house that was totally restored, whose three stories and cellar have been turned into a space on Mallorca for promoting contemporary art by both local and international artists. It was opened on the 6th of May 2006 in a space that is open to all types of contemporary creative projects, either in the fine arts in the broadest sense or musical or literary events. The mission includes developing a space devoted to contemporary art in all its guises, creating a platform for promoting young artists and being a benchmark for Spanish and international collectors. Every year four individual and three collective exhibitions are held. A catalogue is published for each individual exhibition that is sent out as an invitation to see the show.
La Caja Blanca, opened in 2006, is an independent art gallery with international leanings devoted to showcasing and promoting the work of contemporary and emerging artists. The activities scheduled each year include: five exhibitions per year, participation in specialised trade fairs, interventions in public areas, and publishing monographs and educational projects in conjunction with academic institutions and foundations.
Opened in September 2006, the Rafael Gómez Saldaña art school also has a small space for exhibiting the works of Rafael de Pablos, owner of the gallery and teacher at the school.
The Casa de la Cultura Espai Ramón Llull, located in Palma de Mallorca, is used for temporary exhibitions. The Casa de Cultura hosts numerous temporary exhibitions; please check the schedule. The space is lent out after the interested artist submits a prior request
The presence of painted tiles in the eaves is typical in Mallorca rural houses. Your background are medieval and the oldest part of Mallorca dates from the s. Xll. The function of the decorated eaves is a protective symbol of the roots and their inhabitants and in this case the eaves of the cloister was decorated with painted tiles whose inscrpition possibly represented a biblical, poetic or even profane text related to the convente. Once all the decorated tiles have been recovered, this text could serve as a basis for a reading of the same. The part of the tile that was hidden from the view had no preparation, and the symbols, signs or acronyms that can be seen in them were painted directly on it with red orcher (iron oxide). These signs consist, in a number and below a letter, uppercase or lowercase always inverted. It was assumed that they were codes to order the text when placing them. In this way the piece of decorated tile was visible, while the unpainted piece was hidden in the roof. The tiles have uniform measurements of 5cm in length, 24 cm in their larger opening and 16cm in their smaller opening. The restorción has made possible the recovery of many elements, previously beacuse of the dirt that impregnated the tiles and prevented their reading
The Port of Sóller's marine museum is located in the only natural harbour in the Tramontana Mountains, which was the natural communication channel between the city and the region for hundreds of years. The Museum was inaugurated on August 24, 2004 in the Oratory of Santa Caterina d'Alexandria in the Port of Sóller. It has an exhibition hall, audio-visual space, documentation, tools used in traditional boat building, a range of artefacts related to the sea and scale models to inform visitors about shipping and fishing's importance to the city of Sóller.
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