The Salvador Dali Museum is one of the few museums in the US located within the campus of a university. The large, all-white building in St. Petersburg, Florida holds about 1,500 works of art attributed to Dali, including paintings, sculptures and photographs. The exterior wall features a giant copy of Dali's signature.
Instructions
Make Your Visit a Success
1. Check the schedule at the Salvador Dali Museum website before you visit (see Resources below). The museum opens and closes at different hours every day. For example, the museum closes at 8:00 p.m. on Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. on Fridays and 5:30 p.m. on other days, but even those hours can change during summer or around the holidays.
2. Dali's largest paintings at the St. Petersburg museum, include "The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus", a 14 by 9 foot oil painting that took Dali over a year to complete.
3. Study the numerous self-portraits throughout the museum, especially the ones painted in the early 1920s, a difficult time in Dali's life.
4. The temporary exhibits combine Salvador Dali's paintings with work created by some of the most renowned names in modern art. The combination of artists sometimes surprising (as a recent show on Dali & The Spanish Baroque demonstrated) but never disappointing.
5. Bring the kids along on Saturday mornings, when the museum sponsors special "breakfast" events for the whole family. The interactive events are held before opening hours are limited to 20 attendees.
