Manacor History Museum - Enagistes Tower

Museums | Manacor

A fourteenth-century defence enclosure and rural manor home, it houses Manacor's archaeology and history museum and features halls that display the local ethnology and examples of miniature furniture. The History Museum of Manacor was originally called the Archaeology Museum of Manacor, since it was made up of the collection donated by Mn Aguiló i Pinya, who discovered the early Christian basilica and series of buildings in Son Peretó in 1908. Nowadays, the museum offers exhibits on the different historical periods that followed one another in Manacor and Mallorca's eastern zone in general. It not only has strictly archaeological items on display, but also items from the lesser arts, such as a collection of farm machinery and tools, Roman artefacts found on the sea bed, a coin collection that spans Roman times to the present and late nineteenth-century ethnographic items, such as a shoe sewing machine and ice cream cart, among others. The museum also oversees archaeological excavations in the zone. Several Byzantine silos were found for the first time in Mallorca in the village of s'Hospitalet Vell, as was a necropolis for women with items such as bronze rings and sewing needles. Efforts are being made to showcase the basilica, baptistery and necropolis at the site in Son Peretó and shore up and restore their structures. Many of the pieces found there are now in the museum and others are currently being studied. 16.09 a 14.06: Monday to saturday 10-14, 17-19.30 Sunday 10.30-13 Tuesday