Virtual tour of Son Boter
The Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca has begun restoration works on Son Boter to ensure its conservation and preserve the architectural and artistic legacy of this historic space, which is essential to Miró's universe.
Son Boter, an 18th-century Mallorcan estate, was acquired by Joan Miró in 1959 and became his second artistic studio. The building, declared a Site of Cultural Interest (BIC), preserves an exceptional collection of 57 original charcoal drawings on its walls, a direct testimony to the artist’s creative and experimental process.
This space was the catalyst for a profound period of renewal and revision of Miró’s artistic language, marked by the exploration of new formats, materials and techniques. At Son Boter, the artist found the ideal environment in which to develop sculptures, large-format canvases and graphic work with complete freedom, surrounded by his unusual found objects and the improvised canvas of the bare walls. Thus, the building became an immense notebook filled with sketches, splashes and graphics, where he made the definitive leap into the third dimension with monumental sculpture and mural projects for public spaces, consolidating his aspiration to bring art closer to the community.
While the Sert Workshop offers us a more meditative and methodical Miró, Son Boter shows us his wilder, more vital and playful side, and even today you can still feel his presence, as if time had stood still, even through the marks left by his footprints and the paint drips on the floor.
During this period of intervention, Son Boter will be temporarily closed to the public. To continue enjoying this emblematic space, the Foundation offers the possibility of taking a virtual 3D tour of the space here>
Photographs: Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca archive
© for all works by Joan Miró: Successió Miró, 2025
© Juan Gavilán
