Modern Art Museums in Mallorca, Spain

If you count yourself an art lover, you’ve got rich pickings as a guest of ours at a Hoposa hotel or vacation apartment on Mallorca. The island comes well-endowed with artistic heritage and a slew of galleries and museums celebrating it, and among them are some exceptional institutions focused on modern and contemporary art. Here are several of the must-see art museums on our island!

Centro Cultural Andratx (CCA)

Established in 2001 and enjoying renown throughout Europe, the Centro Cultural Andratx (CCA) serves as a 4,000-square-meter celebration of contemporary artists from Mallorca and all over the world. Besides the always-absorbing CCA Gallery, the museum maintains a dedicated space, the CCA ESPAI, for solo exhibitions by contemporary artists from the Balearic Islands.

The CCA ESPAI is currently spotlighting Gitte Norrman (through December 23^rd), while the CCA Gallery is featuring Symphony of Silence by the German artist Nik Nowak as well as Dark Was the Night, selected works by some of the CCA’s artists-in-residence—both shows running through December 16^th.

The CCA also hosts multiple artist studios as well as a museum shop and café.

Es Baluard Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art

Palma’s Es Baluard Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art opened in 2004 and includes a collection of better than 700 pieces of modern and contemporary art. Among those globe-spanning holdings, noted Balearic artists—J. Mir, S. Rusiñol, H. Anglada-Camarasa, and others—come well represented.

Es Baluard would be worthy of a visit based on the quality of its expertly curated galleries alone, but the museum is also distinctive for its architecture: It occupies a 16^th-century fortress, the Baluard de Sant Pere.

Other Mallorcan Modern & Contemporary Art Museums

Also in Palma, the Museum of Spanish Contemporary Art displays a small but top-quality collection of works by such iconic Spanish artists as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali: pieces once owned by Joan March, a Mallorcan businessman whose career saw him ranked among the wealthiest people in the world.

In Soller, meanwhile, you can explore modern art (and a handsome Art Deco building) at Can Prunera, many of the works stemming from the Soller Art Collection (Fundacio d’Art Serra).

Visit Mallorca’s Modern & Contemporary Art Museums on a Hoposa Vacation

Here at Hoposa, we’ll provide you with luxurious coastal rooms, suites, or rental apartments within easy reach of the above institutions—only a small (if exceptional) sample of the art museums and galleries Mallorca hosts.