Spain. Salvador Dali Theatre and Museum in Figueres, Catalonia, 2014 Interiors and exteriors of this wonderful museum
Spain. Salvador Dali Theatre and Museum in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Sept 2014 Interiors and exteriors of this wonderful museum. Wikipeadia below: The Dalí Theatre and Museum (Catalan: Teatre-Museu Dalí, Spanish: Teatro Museo Dalí), is a museum of the artist Salvador Dalí in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia, Spain. The heart of the museum is the building that housed the town's theater when Dalí was a child, where one of the first public exhibitions of young Dalí's art was shown. The old theater was burned during the Spanish Civil War and remained in a state of ruin for decades. In 1960, Dalí and the mayor of Figueres decided to rebuild it as a museum dedicated to the town's most famous son.:4 In 1968, the city council approved the plan, and construction began the following year. The architects were Joaquim de Ros i Ramis and Alexandre Bonaterra.:152 The museum opened on September 28, 1974, with continuing expansion through the mid-1980s. The museum now includes buildings and courtyards adjacent to the old theater building. The museum displays the single largest and most diverse collection of works by Salvador Dalí, the core of which was from the artist's personal collection. In addition to Dalí paintings from all decades of his career, there are Dalí sculptures, 3-dimensional collages, mechanical devices, and other curiosities from Dalí's imagination. A highlight is a 3-dimensional anamorphic living-room installation with custom furniture that looks like the face of Mae West when viewed from a certain spot
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Location: Dali Museum, Figueres,Catalonia, Spain
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