I'm a huge Dali fan and I hope to visit this museum some day. Dali fans call it the 'holy trinity, which includes the theatre museum, the Gala Dali Castle and Dali's house and studio. They are all near Barcelona.
In addition there is a huge Dali museum in St. Petersburg, Florida which I have visited a half dozen times. Quite an interesting story on how the museum landed in Florida. The collectors were a rich businessman and his wife from Cleveland, Ohio. He wanted to build it there but Cleveland told him they didn't want it. So he took out an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal and asked any city who wanted it to contact him. St. Petersburg won the competition. A few years ago they raised money to build a new museum so they could expand as the place is immensely popular.
I can give an enthusiastic recommendation for this museum.
This sounds uncultured, but for a long time I thought of Dali as just like — “le random funny guy” who had the thin mustache and painted the clocks. But this museum totally changed that.
His body of work is huge, varied, immensely original, and technically excellent. The theatre itself is a whole space that really lets you take it in. I suppose you could count me as a Dali fan now because of this museum and I look for his work now wherever I can find it.
I'm a huge Dali fan and I hope to visit this museum some day. Dali fans call it the 'holy trinity, which includes the theatre museum, the Gala Dali Castle and Dali's house and studio. They are all near Barcelona.
In addition there is a huge Dali museum in St. Petersburg, Florida which I have visited a half dozen times. Quite an interesting story on how the museum landed in Florida. The collectors were a rich businessman and his wife from Cleveland, Ohio. He wanted to build it there but Cleveland told him they didn't want it. So he took out an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal and asked any city who wanted it to contact him. St. Petersburg won the competition. A few years ago they raised money to build a new museum so they could expand as the place is immensely popular.
https://thedali.org/
I don't know what this site is doing but the fans on my laptop clicked into high speed and have stayed there!
I can give an enthusiastic recommendation for this museum.
This sounds uncultured, but for a long time I thought of Dali as just like — “le random funny guy” who had the thin mustache and painted the clocks. But this museum totally changed that.
His body of work is huge, varied, immensely original, and technically excellent. The theatre itself is a whole space that really lets you take it in. I suppose you could count me as a Dali fan now because of this museum and I look for his work now wherever I can find it.