Inaugurated in 1969, this museum is a pioneer of its kind in Spain. Its origin dates back to the 1964 Ibiza Biennale, when its organisers decided that the prize-winning works should form part of the future museum's collection. It also houses a collection of engravings from the Ibigrafic competition, which has been held since 1972. In addition to the Firearms Hall and Almacenes a Prova, its main buildings, there are exhibition spaces inside Dalt Vila's ancient walled enclosure: the Gunpowder Room in the Bastion of Santa Llúcia and the Church of El Hospitalet.
The farmhouse of Can Ros, with more than 300 years old. It offers a broad view of the Ibicencan culture and allows you to delve into the rural way of life of the island. At the entrance of the house, you will find two typical carts, which were used until only a few decades ago. Today they can only be seen during popular festivals, when parades are organized. Inside you will find an old kitchen, with all the usual utensils, oven, cupboards and fireplace; farming tools, an old oil mill, an introduction to the salt mines, the wine cave, an exhibition of traditional costumes, traditional jewelry, some weapons and a collection of musical instruments, among other objects. It was inaugurated in 1994.
The Puget Museum occupies Can Llaudis, one of the most beautiful palaces in Dalt Vila. Its rooms house the pictorial collection of Narcís Puget Viñas (1874-1960) and Narcís Puget Riquer (1916-1983), father and son, which the latter donated to the State. Both the father's oil paintings and the son's watercolors compose a portrait of rural Ibiza in the first half of the 20th century. Both are considered two of the best artists in the history of Ibiza and Formentera. The museum's collection includes 130 works by both painters, which allow an immersion in that unusual Ibiza discovered by the first travelers.
This is a new generation interpretation center model, which relies mainly on audiovisual technology to transmit knowledge of the history of the city and particularly everything that refers to the Islamic period and the Arab fortification. The center is located in the Cúria building, built during the 14th-15th centuries, taking advantage of structural elements of the old Arab wall. The restoration that was carried out in this space recovers the memory of the old medina. The visitor enjoys an environment of lights and images that has its maximum attraction in a large audiovisual model, where with great rigor and spectacularity shows a historical evolution of the city.
Inaugurated in 1994, the Marta Torres Gallery offers every year exhibitions of emerging artists along with other creators of national and international prestige, such as Carlos Sansegundo, María Ríos-Coello or Willie Márquez. In fact, artists such as Joan Miró, Manuel Viola, Elmyr de Hory or Miguel Barceló are part of its collection. We also find the works of the gallery's promoter, Marta Torres, an Ibizan painter who has been exhibiting her works in her own space since 1994. She has been painting professionally for more than 20 years. Before beginning her university studies in Fine Arts she liked to paint about the figure and the sea, but little by little she discovered sculpture, and began to experiment with the mixture of this discipline with painting. And from this union between sculpture and painting were born her "matter paintings", as she calls them, which have given her a unique and unmistakable style. Currently, the main theme of her works revolves around the walls, doors and windows of the country houses of Ibiza and Dalt Vila, although she is also interested in representing different places in the world. His creations take on special beauty with the representation of elements of nature very present on the island, such as almond trees, bougainvillea, the red earth of the island and the Mediterranean Sea.
Since 2000 this gallery has been located right on the pleasant boardwalk of Marina de Botafoch. The paintings on display for sale are flawless forgeries of masterpieces painted by hand in oil on canvas. All the reproductions have the approval of the museums that own the originals.
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Can Ventosa is a modernist-style building, located in the center of the capital, which housed a textile factory specializing in knitwear. It was built in 1925, although at the end of the 1950s it was acquired by the Ministry of Defense, which converted it into a workshop and warehouse for the Army. In the 90s of the twentieth century it was expanded and converted into a cultural center, theater-auditorium and municipal library, although its original facade was respected. Many of the concerts and artistic performances organized in the city take place on this stage.
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