The Museum

The origins of the Manacor Museum of History date back to 1908, when Mn. Joan Aguiló i Pinya discovered the early Christian basilica and the complex of Son Peretó. The priest made a gift of his discoveries, as well as the grounds of Son Peretó, to the Manacor Town Hall, at which time the collection was moved from its original exhibition place in the rectory, then known as the Aguiló Museum, to the Municipal Museum of Torre de Ses Puntes, inaugurated in the year 1926.

The museum is located as you leave Manacor going toward Calas de Mallorca. You can also reach it from Felanitx, from the Porto Cristo road, and from the Manacor roundabouts which connect the road from Palma to Artà.

Carretera Cales de Mallorca Km. 1,5
07500 Manacor
Telèfon 971 84 30 65

The access to the museum is free. There is public carpark outside. 

Summer opening times (from 1 Juny to 15 September)

The museum collection began in 1926 when Father Aguiló’s heirs donated his archaeological collection to Manacor town council.

This collection was expanded in the 1960s with ethnographic donations related to farming and cooking.

Industrial equipment from workshops and factories in Manacor has been added to the collection in recent years.

The museum’s collection is divided into three main areas: the archaeological collection, the ethnographic collection and the industrial archaeology collection.

Discover our permanent exhibitions, from the prehistory to the medieval period.

Until fifty years ago, life in Majorca was very different from life today. It was marked by a self-sufficiency economy in which it stood out the consumption of own-made products. This fact supposed a productive wheel that never ended, a constant labour throughout the year and, at the same time, this same wheel year after year… This was the cycle of life. A cycle in which time and the different seasons marked labour in the land.

An Accessible Museum has no barriers. And if necessary, it has no walls, either. It will adapt its facilities and contents to meet the needs of people with disabilities, it will include a range of materials for different levels of cognitive and social development, it will offer specific activities and it will bring culture to the public, as everyone has the right to enjoy culture and it is the responsibility of museums to provide access to it.

On Christmas 2012, the Museum shop was inaugurated by the Association of Friends of the Manacor History Museum.

In this space you can find different merchandising objects related to the Museum but also replicas of objects and engravings of different pieces. In addition, this is the point of sale for Manacor City Council publications, so any book related to Manacor can be found here.