Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca
Joan Miró spent the last 27 years of his life working in Cala Major, a quiet district west of Palma's centre, and the foundation that bears his and his wife Pilar Juncosa's name grew directly from that presence. On 7 March 1981, two years before his death, he formally offered the city his studios, the surrounding land, and thousands of works — paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphic pieces — to keep it all together and accessible.
What you find today is not a single building but a compound: Rafael Moneo's purpose-built exhibition hall, the light-flooded Sert workshop, and Son Boter, an 18th-century Mallorcan farmhouse whose walls still carry Miró's own charcoal graffiti. Around 6,000 works live here.
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People who come back tend to linger longest in Son Boter rather than the Moneo galleries — the charcoal marks on the raw stone walls stop you in a way that framed canvases sometimes don't. The sculpture garden, with its café and sightlines onto Moneo's facade, is worth the last half-hour you might otherwise spend rushing through a final room.
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How Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca came to be
Miró first came to Mallorca through his wife's family and settled permanently in Cala Major in 1956. That same year he commissioned his friend, the Catalan-American architect Josep Lluís Sert, to build him a north-lit studio large enough to work on several canvases at once. Three years later he acquired Son Boter, an 18th-century farmhouse next door, for his largest-scale work.
In 1981, Miró reached a private agreement with Palma City Council to donate the entire site and a substantial body of work. The arrangement stayed out of public view until 1992, when the foundation was formally established. To fund a proper exhibition building, Pilar Juncosa donated land and 42 works were auctioned at Sotheby's; with those proceeds, Rafael Moneo — who would win the Pritzker Prize in 1996 — designed the headquarters that opened on 19 December 1992, nine years after Miró's death.
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