Guide to Barcelona

Dali Museum

Friday, 20 August 2010 08:50

Barcelona museums

This wonderful and world famous museum is not directly located in Barcelona but only a short train ride of 1.5 h away in the city of Figueres –Dali’s hometown. It is also one of the most popular and prestigious museums in the North of Spain and already the building itself in which it is located in, is a masterpiece of art as it is the former Municipal Theatre and the largest surrealist object in the world.

The museum itself displays the broadest range of works of Dalí’s artistic career (1904-1989), from his earliest artistic experiences and his surrealist creations down to the works of the last years of his life.

Some of the displayed works are:

Port Alguer (1924), The Girl from Figueres (1926), The Spectre of Sex Appeal (1932), Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon (1941), Poetry of America – The Cosmic Athletes (1943), Galarina (1944-45), Basket of Bread (1945), Napoleon’s Nose Transformed into a Pregnant Woman Strolling Her Shadow with Melancholic amongst Original Ruins (1945), Atomic Leda (1949), Apotheosis of the Dollar (1965), Galatea of the Spheres (1952) and Dawn, Noon, Afternoon and Evening (1979).

Address:

•    Gala-Salvador Dalí Square, 5
•    E-17600 Figueres

Contact:

•    Telephone:  +34 972 677 500
•    Web: www.salvador-dali.org/museus/figueres

Opening hours:

•    1 November to 28 February: 10:30 to 18:00, Access until 17:15
•    1 March to 30 June: 9:30 to 18:00, Access until 17:15
•    1 July to 30 September: 9:00 to 20:00, Access until 19:15
•    1 October to 30 October: Open from 9:30 to 18, Access until 17:15
•    Closed on: 1 January and 25 December, Every Monday between 1 October and 31 May, except on holidays and holiday eves.
•    From 1 June to 30 September open every day.

Prices:

•    Individual: 11 € (includes Dalí Jewels exhibition)
•    Reduced: 8 € (includes Dalí Jewels exhibition)
•    Groups (+ 25 people): 7 €. Reservation is required



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