The workshop as left
The disorder of the studio explains his method better than any hung canvas.
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Barcelona is an institution Miró created to show his work, with a far larger collection. This one in Mallorca is his actual house and studio, and its value is in seeing where the work happened rather than in the size of the holdings. Anyone who has seen Barcelona will find something different here, not a repeat.
A bus from central Palma to Cala Major, or a short drive or taxi. It is not walkable from the historic centre, so allow a journey each way and make it a half day.
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A museum and art centre on the site where the Catalan painter Joan Miró lived and worked through the last decades of his life. Miró moved to Mallorca in 1956 and stayed until his death in 1983, so this is not a museum built to display his work but the place where it was made. That is what separates it from any other Miró museum: his studio is kept as he left it, with the brushes, the tins, the unfinished pieces and the objects he collected on the beach and used in his compositions. Seeing the disorder of the workshop explains his method better than the hung canvases do. The main exhibition building is contemporary, designed by Rafael Moneo, and holds a permanent collection and temporary shows alongside the studio and the house. The site is west of the city in Cala Major and needs a bus or a short drive. Treat it as a standalone half day, since it does not combine on foot with the historic centre.
The disorder of the studio explains his method better than any hung canvas.
Miró lived here for twenty-seven years until his death, so the site is part of the work.
The galleries are by the architect Rafael Moneo, an architectural piece in their own right.
Cala Major, west of Palma de Mallorca