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Museu de Mallorca VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
The best museum in the Balearic Islands can be found close to La Seu, Practical Information
in Palau Ayamans, a residence built around 1630. The palace was Carrer de sa Portella 5, 07001.
erected on the foundations of an Arab house, dating from the 12th Tel 971 177 838.
Open 10am–6pm Mon–Fri,
to 13th century, which is still visible in the underground rooms of the 11am–2pm Sat. Closed Sun
museum. Opened in 1968, the museum houses a superb collection of and public holidays. ^
works of art associated with Mallorcan history. The collection comprises ∑ museudemallorca.caib.es
several thousand exhibits and includes prehistoric artifacts found during Transport
archaeological excavations, stone fragments of fallen buildings, priceless 4 San Marco.
Moorish ceramics and jewellery, and medieval and Baroque paintings.
. Lar Cabeza de Mercurio
Augustal The Head of Mercurio is one
From Son of a group of 17th-century
Corro Sanctuary stone sculptures by artists
in Costixt, this1st- Jaume and Rafel Blanquer.
century-AD bronze statue It is one of the few remain-
of a Roman domestic ing examples of secular
deity was an object of Baroque sculpture.
daily worship.

Paris i Helena (c.1665)
Italian painting is represented by this Baroque work by
Mattia Preti, whose extensive legacy can also be seen
in Rome and Malta.

. Almohad Treasure
Items of Arab jewellery are among the Modernista Panel
museum’s most precious exhibits. This 20th-century, decorative glazed Modernista panel came
They are kept in the treasury room, from the Mallorcan ceramic factory, La Roqueta.
behind bulletproof glass.

Key
Vaults
Ground floor
1st floor
3rd floor

Gallery Guide
The museum’s collection is
arranged on four floors, in Altarpiece of St Bernardo (1325)
Painted on a wooden panel by an unknown
chronological order. The artist, this Gothic altarpiece is the first known
oldest relics, including monumental depiction of St Bernardo.
archaeological finds, are
kept in the underground
vault. The most recent art,
including 19th- and Urna Turó . Statuette of a Warrior
20th-century paintings, Dating between the 3rd century BC The 4th-century-BC bronze figure
is exhibited on the top and 1st century AD, this vase from is of a divine warrior from Son Favar
floor. The second floor Turó de Ses Abelles in Calvià imitates and forms part of a series known as
is occupied by offices. the ceramics of the Iberian peninsula. Entrance Mars Balearicus.

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