The world’s largest surrealist object…….
Inaugurated in 1974, the Dalí Theatre-Museum rises on the remains of the former Municipal Theatre of Figueres and is considered to be the last great work of Salvador Dalí. Everything in it was conceived and designed by the artist so as to offer visitors a real experience and draw them into his unique and captivating world. ( Read more )
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From the seventies onwards, Dalí devoted his entire attention to the museum project, taking a huge part in it and designing its every detail, until it became real with the official inauguration of the Dalí Theatre-Museum on 28 September 1974. One of the most noticeable features of the museum was the transparent reticular structure shaped like a geodesic dome that crowns the building. which was entrusted by Salvador Dalí to the Murcian architect Emilio Pérez Piñero (1935-1972). That dome has now become the emblem of the Theatre-Museum and a great landmark of the city of Figueres.( Read more )
The Dalí Foundation reported that in 2014 the Dalí museums had received a total of 1.535.070 visitors. ( Read more )
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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter, sculptor, scenographer, filmmaker, jewelry designer, and writer born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.( Read more )
A visit to the museum is a unique experience, allowing visitors to experience and enjoy the genius’s works and thoughts. In the words of Dalí himself: “It’s obvious that other worlds exist, that’s certain; but, as I’ve already said in many other occasions, these other worlds are inside ours, they reside on earth and are precisely at the centre of the dome of the Dalí Museum, which contains the new, unsuspected and hallucinatory world of Surrealism”. ( Read more )
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© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2014.
Galarina ( 1945 )
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2014.
Port Alguer ( 1923 )
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