Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca
Museum · Palma · Mallorca
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The house and studios where Joan Miró actually lived and worked for almost 30 years, kept largely as he left them, hold 6,000 of his works inside the foundation he and his wife Pilar set up in Mallorca.
Miró asked his friend, the architect Josep Lluís Sert, to design this studio for him in 1956, the year he moved to Mallorca for good at the age of 63. He worked in it until his death in 1983. A short walk away stands Son Boter, the 18th-century Mallorcan farmhouse he bought in 1959 to work at a larger scale than the main studio allowed. The newer galleries, added in 1992 by the architect Rafael Moneo, who went on to win the 1996 Pritzker Prize, rotate through a slice of the roughly 6,000 works Miró and his wife Pilar Juncosa gave to set up the foundation together. The collection runs his whole career, from early, more figurative paintings to the loose, sign-like canvases of his last decades. A sculpture garden links the three buildings, where his bronzes and murals stand in the open air.
What you see
Sert's wing-shaped roof and outsized skylights pour light onto one long room still crowded with Miró's own paint, brushes and sponges, alongside the postcards, folk carvings and Oceanic masks he collected around the walls.
Practical
Closed Mondays; open Tuesday-Saturday year-round (to 6pm in winter, 7pm in summer) and Sunday/holiday mornings to 3pm. Entry is free the first Sunday of each month and Saturdays from 3pm. The car park has 12 dedicated bicycle spaces alongside 60 for cars.
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- The house and studios where Joan Miró actually lived and worked for almost 30 years, kept largely as he left them, hold 6,000 of his works inside the foundation he and his wife Pilar set up in Mallorca.
- Where is Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca?
- Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca is in Palma, Mallorca (Spain).