Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca

The Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca preserves Joan Miró’s studios and presents a permanent collection of his paintings, sculptures, and ceramics, alongside rotating contemporary exhibitions.

Planning your visit

Miró moved permanently to Mallorca in 1956, where his wife Pilar was from, and spent the last twenty-seven years of his life working there. The foundation preserves what he left: two studios and a collection of around 6,000 works.

The Sert studio, designed for him by his friend Josep Lluís Sert, is the extraordinary part. When Miró died it was sealed and has been kept as he left it — paints, brushes, unfinished canvases, collected objects and rubbish pinned to the walls, the accumulated visual clutter he worked among. Seeing it explains more about his method than the finished paintings do. Son Boter, an eighteenth-century farmhouse he bought next door, holds charcoal drawings he made directly on its walls as studies for sculpture.

Rafael Moneo's museum building, added in 1992, houses the collection and temporary exhibitions, with a reflecting pool and views toward Palma bay.

It sits in Cala Major, a short drive from central Palma. Allow two hours. Bookable options include masterpiece tours of the museum and gardens. Current availability is listed below.