The Museu de Mallorca occupies the Can Aiamans palace, a seventeenth-century Baroque mansion in the La Calatrava quarter, and covers the island's history from prehistoric times through to the twentieth century. The prehistoric and protohistoric rooms are the most distinctive: they contain artefacts from the Talayotic culture that flourished on the Balearic Islands between roughly 1000 and 100 BC, a Bronze Age civilization that left towers, navetas (collective burial chambers), and bronze figurines found nowhere else.
The Islamic section covers the Almohad period when Mallorca was a prosperous part of the western Islamic world, and includes architectural fragments, ceramics, and household objects that give a different perspective on the island's history from the more familiar Christian monuments. Later rooms cover the medieval and early modern periods, with a good collection of Gothic altarpieces and wood sculpture. The palace itself — the grand staircase, the courtyard, the painted ceilings — is worth seeing independent of the collections.