Museum de Lluc (Mallorca)

Museum de Lluc

Culture of the Balearic Islands
Museum de Lluc

Culture of the Balearic Islands
Museum de Lluc

Culture of the Balearic Islands

Museum de Lluc

The Museum was inaugurated in 1952 with donations from different sources, which initially set up the archaeology section. Years later, in 1971, Antoni Mulet Gomila donated his collections from Ca’n Mulet in Génova (Palma) to the Lluc Museum.

This considerably increased the Lluc Collection, converting it – thanks to these donated items of popular dress, pottery, traditional furniture, jewellery and painting – into the Mallorcan museum that most widely represents the physical aspects of Balearic Islands culture. In 1984 a significant collection of contemporary painting and sculpture was incorporated into the museum. The contemporary art collection was expanded through the room devoted to the work of painter Josep Coll Bardolet. In 2004 the Bujosa Rosselló room was added, focussing on Mallorcan textile art, displaying objects and machinery from the family firm.

The first floor houses most of the main spaces which can be viewed as a tour that makes a loop around the rectangular arrangement of the building, divided into six rooms: Archaeology (Room 1), Gold, silverwork & jewellery (Room 2), Clothing & furniture (Room 3), Religious imagery (Room 4), Pottery (Room 5) and the Painter Coll Bardolet (Room 6). The two rooms on the top floor are the art gallery (Room 7) and Textile art (Room 8).