Explorer Palma

The Palau March is a palace beside Palma Cathedral, built from 1939 to 1945 to plans by Luis Gutiérrez Soto as the Palma home of the financier Joan March. It now houses the museum of the Fundació Bartolomé March: modern and contemporary sculpture in its courtyard, a collection of Mallorcan maps, an 18th-century Neapolitan nativity scene and murals by Josep Maria Sert.

Es Baluard is Palma's museum of modern and contemporary art, opened in 2004 inside the Renaissance bastion of Sant Pere on the old city walls. A concrete building set into the ramparts holds a collection of more than 700 works by Balearic and international artists, and temporary exhibitions. Visitors can also walk the bastion's terraces above the bay and enter its old cistern.

The Fundació Miró Mallorca occupies the estate in Palma where Joan Miró lived and worked from 1956 until his death in 1983. Visitors see the studio Josep Lluís Sert designed for him, the traditional Son Boter house with the artist's sketches on its walls, and a 1992 building by Rafael Moneo that shows works from the collection in rotation.