Manor house for modern and contemporary art
The Juan March Foundation Museum in Palma houses an anthology of art produced in Spain during the second half of the 20th century. Housed in a 17th-century stately home in Palma’s historic center — once the main residence of Juan March Ordinas, who established the Fundación Juan March — the museum opened in 1990 as an exhibition space displaying a collection of 36 works by Spanish contemporary artists.
Over the years, the permanent collection has grown to include more than 100 paintings and sculptures. After highlighting Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and other early avant-gardes, the museum presents visitors with works by some of the most significant artists from the 1950s through 2000, featuring both abstract artists such as Eduardo Chillida, Antoni Tàpies and Manolo Millares, as well as figurative painters including Carmen Laffón, Antonio López Garcia and Miquel Barceló.
The permanent exhibition is complemented by a library, archives and temporary shows, and the museum engages diverse audiences through an educational program of guided visits, workshops and other learning activities. A lively cultural program invites the public to explore not only topics related to art, but also the history and culture of the Mediterranean world, craftsmanship and design, and many other subjects, with the addition of film series and interviews with writers and other creators.
Created in 1955 by the financier Juan March Ordinas, the Juan March Foundation is a family charitable institution with a mission to promote culture in Spain. Guided only by its commitment to quality and service to the community, the foundation undertakes curatorial research and presents exhibitions as the public outcome of these scholarly efforts. Since 2006, it has combined thesis-driven shows and presentations of historically lesser-known artists and movements with monographic exhibitions on key figures of modernity, many of which are shown for the first time in Spain.
Susana Solano’s “Hollow Hills Number 7,” 1984, on view in the center of the gallery