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Museum of Contemporary Art
Located in the bastion of Sant Joan, installed in the fort and preceded by a garden we find the Museum of Contemporary Art. Its rooms are works of Tapies and Miralles, among many other Spanish and foreign artists, who for one reason or another, are linked to the island. Emphasizes the important collection of prints.

Archaeological Museum
Corner with the cathedral is the building of the former "University", where today is located the museum. From the twelfth to the eighteenth century was used as headquarters of the island self-government. Now its halls are exposed more than 600 pieces that explain the evolution of Ibiza through the centuries and different cultures.
The longest period studied is the Carthaginian, which shows amphorae, china, pottery, ointment, among other items. The museum houses collections of prehistoric pottery, bronze axes, stone tools original Roman statues Portal de Ses Taules, gravestones, vases, coins, Punic steles, amulets, statues and images of gods and Islamic glass objects.

Puig dels Molins Museum
A century ago was a forest of olive and flour mills. Excavations have shown that long before it was a Punic and Roman necropolis with more than 4000 graves. Now, the museum's galleries provide a perspective on what was found teaching, illuminating details on the Punic life still unknown.
It is possible to visit a hypogeum, which impressed his sarcophagus of sandstone, alienated in the caves. In this same place, the Ibizan held every August 8th collective snack. Its funds include collections of amulets, mirrors, fishing tools, pottery, figurines of the goddess Tanit, glasses with various zoomorphic shapes, decorated ostrich eggs were sacred vessels and coins are on one side the effigy of Bes.

Van der Voort Gallery
Art gallery with prestige and seniority, which displays samples of the art of Ibiza. Apart from the exhibition on duty in a room with lots of character, the gallery has the espai, designed by Josep Lluis Sert, which are stacked works of the most notable names of the artistic vanguard of Ibiza for the last forty years. If the director of the gallery, Cati Verdera, attends in person and takes visitors to the espai, normally closed, the artistic enjoyed guaranteed.

Diocesan Museum
Installed in the chapter room of the Cathedral in their units are set pieces of religious art survived the looting and burning of 1936. We can highlight the tables Gothic Santa Tecla and San Antonio, Francesc Comas fifteenth century, the St. James and St. Matthias, courage Montoliu, the Renaissance altarpiece of San Gregorio, anonymous Generation Sacred and the high relief of Virgen del Rosario, Renaissance style.