A Salvador Dali Day
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born in Figueres, Catalonia Spain in 1904. Dali is best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist artwork. Dali was said to have produced more than 1,500 paintings along with illustrations for books and lithographs. Dali had a big imagination and indulged in unusual behavior from time to time. Sometime his outlandish behavior even drew more attention than his artwork. He also sculpted. The surrealist artist Edward James commissioned two of his more famous pieces, the Lobster Telephone and Mae West Lips Sofa, completed in 1936 and 1937.
Dali Museum Tour
The Salvador Dali Theater and Museum is located in Figueres, Catalonia Spain and offers a Dali museum tour. The museum was opened in September 1974. It was designed by Dali himself and is built over an old town theater he would visit as a child. It holds the largest and most diverse collection of works by Salvador Dali. You can take a Dali Museum Tour in Figueres. The tour last 8 hours, you can have two to eight people in your group. A Dali museum tour package includes transport, professional guide, entry tickets and refreshments.
The Salvador Dali Museum
The Salvador Dali Museum is home to the largest collection of Dali’s work. The museum has thousands of visitors each year and show the museumgoers what it was really like in Dali’s mind. There are rooms in the museum that Dali painted himself. There is also a living room made to look like Mae West that Dali designed. There is a small collection of other artist’s work housed in the museum. They are pieces that Dali had collected himself. There are many things to do in Spain, but missing a Dali Museum Tour is not one of them.