08.- Monographic Museum of Puig des Molins (Ibiza) - Subtitled

The current Monographic Museum of Puig des Molins is the result of a long and eventful history, which began on October 8, 1929, during the visit of Alfonso XIII to Ibiza. Carlos Román, then director of the Archaeological Museum, took advantage of his arrival to propose an ambitious project for Puig des Molins. The royal visit resulted in obtaining the go-ahead for the necropolis to be declared a Historic Artistic Monument, the commitment to purchase private land, the transfer of land belonging to the Army and the construction of a new building for the Museum and to house the important archaeological remains that crowded the small building in Dalt Vila, headquarters of the Archaeological Museum since 1907. The drafting of a project was immediately started, which included fencing with a stone wall and a fence with a perimeter of 77,500 m2.
The proclamation of the Republic on 14 April 1931 frustrated this project. However, under the Republican regime, on 3 June 1931 the necropolis was declared a Historic Artistic Monument. However, this Ministerial Order had the disadvantage of not establishing the limits of the site, which were not known exactly. This led to the city invading the burial area in the following decades, mainly in the lower area where the archaeological remains were less evident. Nor did the Law of Historic Artistic Heritage of 1933 mean a notable change. The visit made in 1932 by the President of the Republic, Niceto Alcalá Zamora, encouraged Román to offer a plot of land on the Can Partit estate, owned by his family, free of charge to build the new Museum.
In this way, the commitment to build the new building, which would house the archaeological collections of Ibiza and Formentera, was achieved. The project was drawn up, awarded in 1935 and started in 1936, but the outbreak of the Civil War brought construction to a standstill. Work was not restarted until 1965, and what is now the museum building was completed in 1966.
However, it soon became clear that the new construction did not have the capacity to fulfil its objective. Therefore, it was decided to maintain the Dalt Vila museum as a general museum and convert the new building into a monographic museum of the Puig des Molins necropolis. The new museum opened its doors in 1966 to host the second edition of the Ibiza Biennial of Contemporary Art. In 1968 it was finally inaugurated as the Monographic Museum of Puig des Molins. Since then, the museum has gone through many vicissitudes, undergoing various reforms to adapt its structure to the growing museographic needs of the institution.
The Puig des Molins Museum building, after the renovation, in addition to the permanent exhibition rooms, also houses the administrative and research offices, the library, the warehouses and the restoration workshop, as well as other rooms intended for educational activities, such as the assembly hall or the educational room.
On December 12, 2012, and after a major renovation of its facilities, the museum reopened its doors to the public.
When conceiving the new Museum, the idea was to turn the visit to the Puig des Molins necropolis and its Monographic Museum into an invitation to a “journey to Death in Ancient Ibiza.” An immersion in the mentalities of the societies that inhabited the city of Ibiza in Antiquity; in their ways of understanding death; in their beliefs, fears and hopes about the afterlife; and in the funeral conduct that they developed from those.
Visiting hours
TUESDAY TO THURSDAY
9.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m.
FRIDAY
9.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. AND 5.00 p.m. TO 8.00 p.m.
SATURDAYS
9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.
SUNDAY
9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.
(closed on Mondays and holidays)
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