Contemporary Art at Es Baluard Museu
Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma sits inside a 16th-century seafront bastion at the edge of Palma's Old Town, its raw stone ramparts and stark concrete galleries built directly into the old city walls above the harbour. The museum holds a permanent collection of 20th- and 21st-century Spanish and Balearic art alongside a programme of rotating temporary exhibitions, so there is always something new on the walls even on a repeat visit. From 24 July to 18 October 2026, the museum hosts "A Media Lumbre", a group exhibition curated by Blanca de la Torre that puts ceramics, wool, textiles and natural fibres — crafts long dismissed as "minor arts" — in dialogue with oral tradition and vernacular memory. It is one of four linked shows unfolding across Valencia, Mallorca, Aragón and Catalonia, co-produced with Valencia's IVAM museum. Exhibitions like this rotate through the year, so check the current programme before visiting. Beyond the galleries, the terrace built into the old bastion looks out over the Mediterranean and the cathedral, and the museum runs a regular calendar of guided visits, talks and family workshops.
