Salvador Dali Museum, Figueras 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.

Picture - The Dali Theater-Museum in Figueras.

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Address: Plaza Gala y Salvador Dalí 5, Spain

Opening hours: Jul 1 to Sep 30: 9am-7:15pm
Oct 1 to Jun 30: 10:30am-5:15pm; Closed: Mon

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

Entrance fee: Adult Admission Cost, Senior Discount, Students Discount, Group discounts Discount, Child 9 & under Free

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Disability Access: Full facilities for persons with disabilities.

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museum is laid out on several floors corresponding to the different levels of the old theater, the roof of which has been replaced by the perspex dome.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

Salvador Dali Museum Highlights

Salvador Dali 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 visible but the huge soles of their feet, while their bodies are lost in the depths of the scene

Salvador Dali 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 under a red baldachin. The outside walls and the monument in front of the entrance have also been distorted by Dalí in an unexpected way.

Salvador Dali 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.