One of the great attractions of the Can Prunera Modernist House is its close relationship with children and childhood. On the third floor of the museum, in the Islands of Curiosity playing ground, more than 2,000 children have left their mark in just eight months. Schools in Sóller and Port de Sóller have thrown themselves into the museum’s new cultural project, which advocates an organic link between play and learning. During July and August, the summer schools of Can Dulce, the Botanical Garden, Son Angelats, l’Escola del Puig, and l’Escola del Port de Sóller visited the Modernist house on several occasions, either through guided tours or to enjoy the playground.

There is a truly wonderful trend that goes beyond exceeding the figure of 2,000 children, which is that the vast majority of children come from schools in Sóller and Port de Sóller. From July to November, the Es Fossaret public school visited Can Prunera five times with students of various ages, who were delighted to learn more about Sóller and its unique history. Without going any further, the Es Puig School visited the museum this week in November, on the 25th, 26th, and 27th, with fourth, fifth, and sixth graders to carry out a modernist project. The school has embraced the symbolism, stories, tales, and art of the house, opening up new creative horizons for the children, who have actively participated with their innate curiosity and intelligent questions.

Six-year-old Toni discovered a link between dreams and reality in Joan Miró’s statue Tette de femme (1974) when he saw a moon and a star engraved on the front of the sculpture. Five-year-old Noa asked us why mathematics was living inside a painting by Nicolas de Staël, because of the geometric, almost Pythagorean shapes in this work. Hidaya, a 7-year-old Moroccan girl, saw a very strong connection with Morocco in the hydraulic tiles in the main hall of Can Prunera. And she is not far off the mark, because thanks to the collaboration between the Huguet company and expert Moroccan craftsmen, the original tiles of the modernist house were restored. Childlike intuition at its finest.

In the coming weeks, we will be visited by 65 students from the Ágora School, as well as the Robert Graves Primary School in Deià, among others, to take part in a workshop on the playing field.