Figueras - Dali Theater-Museum

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Dali Theater-Museum Description

(Local Name: 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museum is laid out on several floors corresponding to the different levels of the old theater, the roof of which has been replaced by the perspex dome.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

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Hobbies & Activities category: Paintings, art collections; Major world-scale museum; Architecture - Neo-Classical

Dali Theater-Museum Highlights

Dali Theater-Museum - Ceiling Painting

Thus on the first floor there is a large ceiling painting in the Baroque manner which carries the perspective effects of its models to a grotesque extreme: of two figures seen from below little is

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Dali Theater-Museum - Monumental Painting

The former stage has been shut off by a high glass wall, behind which, in a space resembling the sanctuary of a church, is a monumental painting and, opposite it, like an altar, a smaller picture

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Dali Theater-Museum - Tomb

Dalí died on January 25, 1989, and his tomb is under the museum's dome. Characteristically, it includes a representation of a Cadillac with Dalí himself at the wheel as well as a statue of "Esther" by the Viennese sculptor Ernst Fuchs.

Address

Dali Theater-Museum
Plaza Gala y Salvador Dalí 5
Figueras
Spain

Hours

July 1 to September 30

Open	9:00	9:00	9:00	9:00	9:00	9:00	9:00
Closed	19:15	19:15	19:15	19:15	19:15	19:15	19:15

October 1 to June 30

Open	Closed	10:30	10:30	10:30	10:30	10:30	10:30
Closed		17:15	17:15	17:15	17:15	17:15	17:15

Always closed on:
Catalunya Day - Spain (September 11)