EPISCOPAL PALACE AND DIOCESÀ MUSEUM

Museums | Palma de Mallorca

Residence of the Bishop of Mallorca, it is Gothic in style. The Museum displays some of the treasures of the Mallorcan Church. It is divided into seven sections - rreligious sculpture, archaeology, modern ceramics, the Séguier legacy, religious art and numismatics, Gothic painting and a bibliographical collection. The museum's director, Miquel Garau, affirms that the museum hopes to offer a educational tour of the history of the Church in Mallorca that provides people the chance to perceive the beauty of Church art. The Diocesan Museum has a remarkably varied and extensive collection of cultural heritage, which made it hard to select the works for the permanent exhibition and is why a hall for temporary exhibitions was created to gradually display the part of the collection not in the permanent exhibition and pieces that are being recovered at present. The museum debuts with a permanent exhibition of 200 pieces that trace the islanl's ecclesiastical art from the fifteenth century to our times. One of the collection's most outstanding works is Pere Niçarl's Sant Jordi, a fundamental fifteenth-century piece in Mallorca with clear Flemish influences that offers a glimpse of life in the port of Palma at that time. Work by Valencian Renaissance painter Joan de Joanes, with its Roman, classical and monumental influences, also has a special place in the museum.