Figueras - Dali Theater-Museum Museo Salvador Dalí

The Salvador Dalí Museum can be distinguished from a long way off by the perspex dome composed of honeycomb-like elements which now crowns the old Neo-Classical theater (1850) housing the museum. The Dalí Museum is not only the principal tourist attraction of Figueras but one of the most important sights in the whole of Catalonia and, after the Prado in Madrid, the most visited museum in Spain.

Nowhere else can the work of the great Surrealist artist, a native of Figueras, be seen in so concentrated form. The museum is laid out on several floors corresponding to the different levels of the old theater, the roof of which has been replaced by the perspex dome. In the windows and on the cornices are a host of plastic figurines in every conceivable pose.

The works displayed here in such numbers have an extraordinary fascination of their own. Here every trend in art is parodied and given a new turn, every technique is handled with the utmost virtuosity, every material is used in an unexpected way. Only a few particularly striking examples of Dalí's work can be mentioned.