The Palma Annex — The 8 Museum

established 21 may 2025, upon first encounter

coordinates 39°34′N, 2°40′E

collection 191 works accessioned; a selection of eight exhibited below

holdings on permanent loan from the built environment of Palma; not one has been moved

premises the city of Palma, in its entirety

hours continuous

admission attention

An annex of The 8 Museum is a city in which encounters have occurred. Unlike the annexes of other institutions, it holds no building, employs no staff, and has acquired nothing. Its collection is held on indefinite loan from the world and remains installed where it was found — in carved sandstone, gilded woodwork, door knockers, and the marés of old façades — maintained, without their knowledge, by the residents, the weather, and the municipal services of the city itself.

The Palma Annex was established on 21 May 2025, in the course of a week on the island. Its works skew stately: the 8 here is carved, gilded, and mounted above doors that have outlasted several ideas of Spain. One work is formed by a door knocker and its ring, an 8 assembled from hardware by nobody in particular; the committee admitted it without discussion. The further body of works across the island, long noted here as pending, completed its paperwork in September 2026 as the Alcúdia Annex, after a wait the committee has described as instructive. Each of the annex's works was photographed in situ, untouched, under existing conditions, and left exactly as it was. Visitors to Palma are advised that the collection remains on public display. Every work was last verified on the day of its encounter; what the weather, the council, and the ordinary attrition of the world have since done to them, the museum does not undertake to know. The register records the encounter, not the object; an encounter, once entered, is beyond the reach of the weather.