Museum

Lines of action

Introduction Museum spaces Transparency Policies Deontological Code

According to the substantial strategic planning and general principles, the lines of action established are mainly intended to be functional and operative and attain the objectives the museum has set itself as an institution. The mission. This is the raison d’être of Es Baluard Museu, which justifies its existence. The vision. The channelling of the desirable objectives, foreseeing needs.

The fulfilment of the functions. Intended to establish the bases on which the entire museum stands, guiding its lines in: heritage, research, dissemination and education. The projects. Much more than a white box, the museum is an organic being that produces new contemporary thought processes, exhibitions and activities. The interlocutors. Rather than thinking of visitors as users or the public, Es Baluard Museu believes in active interlocutors or audiences with whom it can construct culture and history from horizontality, looking towards the future.

Purpose of the museum spaces

Programmes and use of the spaces

Exhibitions (Floor -1, 0 and 1). The programme is based on a line of collective, historiographic, thesis or research exhibitions designed to improve our knowledge of modern and contemporary art, set out by the museum’s director. In this halls (A,B, C and D), with the aim of encouraging historical analysis and contextualising what has occurred in the recent past in artistic terms, since 2013 the museum has held an open tender for the promotion of lines of research and diffusion on creators or collectives from the Balearic Islands. More information at: (+)

Aljub (Floor 0). The programme for the Aljub is developed on the basis of the criteria set out below:
- -Projects linked to the museum’s own dynamics: its programme of present-day art centred on the collection, the areas of educational development and cultural action and on international artists in harmony with the programme conceived by the director.
- -Proposals from the collectives associated to the museum and creators in residence (by associated projects we understand private or public non-proit collectives with a regular programme of activities or actions focussing on the development of creation and/or consistent with the evolution and drive of permanently-evolving contemporary society).
- -Rentals by entities, companies, foundations or festivals who feel their usage is a contribution to a singular cultural museum project. (+)

Espai Educatiu Guillem Cifre de Colonya (Floor 2). Conceived through an ephemeral architecture workshop initiated in December of 2014 and completed in April 2015 under the direction of Nerea Calvillo (C+arquitectos) and Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation) with the collaboration of Juana Canet (COAIB) and the workshop participants Natalia Escudero, Selina Feduchi, Gádor Luque, Noemí Martínez, Marina Moner, Alba Peña, Miguel Ros, Eva Seijas, Carmen Soler, Maria Tirón. It is a space that attends to the new demands of mediating and pedagogical actions of Es Baluard’s Department of Educational Development, Training and Public Programmes. (+)

Els Arcs. External space for use by associated collectives or proposals related to creation and contemporary cultures. (+)

Upper terraces and patio and external places. Outdoor spaces arranged like an agora, for contemplation and recreation. (+)

Es Baluard Museu is a Balearic institutional facility set in a privileged location in the Bay of Palma, comprising a cultural complex in and around the historic city wall and adjoining spaces.

Aside from its physical location, the project as a concept and mediator extends towards the near radius, based on networking, and towards other geographical and cultural areas with similar projects which it is in tune with and whose synergies can be contemplated.

With social commitment, intellectual effort and recreation, we believe that the museum’s mission, as well as heritage work, is to offer its different interlocutors the appropriate critical tools for discovering and recognising contemporary museum practices.

Transparency Policies

Fundació Es Baluard Museu has developed a transparency policy at all levels of management.

The publication of statements, annual reports, contracting systems on the museum’s website is logical and is kept constantly active. We also record our programming policy associated to the different spaces. The first one referred to the Aljub and subsequently, it was extended to the public tenders, such as the one for the reception of projects linked to the historiography of the Balearic Islands. The museum holds fourth place in the transparency ranking of Spanish museums, after the Bilbao Guggenheim, the Artium in Vitoria and the Museo Nacional del Prado, according to the report by the Fundación Compromiso y Transparencia (Commitment and Transparency Foundation), with the collaboration of the 2015 Foro de Cultura y Buenas Prácticas (Forum for Culture and Good Practice).

The Board of the Fundació Es Baluard Museu, in favor of their commitment to transparency, offer advertising and access to information on the following portals:

Deontological Code

With the object of uniting and revealing good practice and ethics as a guide, both internally and informatively towards the exterior, we developed a basic manual that synthesizes the channels that mark Es Baluard Museu's conduct and mode of action.

The ethical code has been incorporated into the museum’s Strategic Plan in order to increase the trust placed in us by society, professionals from the world of culture, associated programmes, sponsors and benefactors. The document, which was drafted by the museum’s director in summer of 2014, takes several sources as references: the Ethical Code of the IAC, the Ethical Code of the ICOM, the Code of Conduct for the Museum of Modern Art MOMA, Principes deontologiques del Musées Canadiens, Code of ethics for museums, Museums associations UK, the ethical code of the Louvre, Code of Ethics for Curators del Curators Committee of the American Association of Museums (CurCom), and was approved by the Executive Committee of Fundació Es Baluard on 8^th October 2014.

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