First impressions of the new Dalí Museum in St Petersburg

First impressions of the new Dalí Museum in St Petersburg

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The new Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida has now been open for over two-years. The much-anticipated fantastical $36 million, 66,450 square foot museum doubled the capacity of the previous 1982 building that I had the opportunity to visit in February 2009.

The original museum had opened in a renovated marine warehouse March 7, 1982. According to a number of media accounts, the new museum – which is the home of 2,140 pieces of Salvador Dali’s art, including 96 oil paintings and eight huge master works - opened on the auspicious date of January 11, 2011 (1/11/11) at 11:11 a.m.

The museum in downtown St. Petersburg houses one of the most extensive collections of the art of Salvador Dali in the world. It began in Cleveland, OH, in 1942 where collecting Dali’s art was the lifelong passion of industrialist A. Reynolds Morse, and his wife Eleanor Reese Morse.

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As you approach the HOK-designed museum, you are immediately impressed with the enormity of what appears at first glance to be a huge introverted enigmatic cubist-snail on steroids. The internationally recognized architect Yann Weymouth led the design team.

The museum structure is a magnificent adaption to a site with many design constraints, including but not limited to the fact that it houses one of the foremost collections of art in the world in a hurricane zone, just feet above sea level with a profound flood hazard…

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According to information on the Dali Museum website, “The museum’s exterior is itself a work of art, featuring 1062 triangular-shaped glass panels. This geodesic glass structure – nicknamed the “Enigma” – is the only structure of its kind in North America and is a 21st century expression of Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome as utilized in Dalí’s Teatro Museo in Figueres, Spain. No two glass panels are identical, providing a kaleidoscopic view of St. Petersburg’s picturesque waterfront.

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My visit to the new Dali Museum in St. Petersburg Florida

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A visit to the new surreal fantastical Dali Museum in St. Petersburg Florida

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If you ever find yourself in the south Florida area, even if you are not an art enthusiast, do not pass up an opportunity to visit the Dali Museum in the downtown St. Petersburg waterfront part of town - at 1 Dali Boulevard, (475 Bayshore Dr SE,) Saint Petersburg, FL. 33701, (727) 823-3767.

The hours are Mon-Wed, Fri-Sat 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Thu 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday, noon-5:30 p.m. Military, police and firefighters have an admission price of $19. Students with an ID are $15. After 5:00 pm on Thursdays admission is only $10.

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Labels: Art Artists Dali-Salvador,

On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, I took advantage of the opportunity to visit the new Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

I had previously had the opportunity to visit the Morse collection of Dali’s work in its former location in February 2009 - http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/03/tentacle-spellbound-by-salvador-dali-by.html

I wrote about that visit in The Tentacle: Spellbound by Salvador Dali by Kevin E. Dayhoff on March 25, 2009

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3078 http://tinyurl.com/c67b3f

I have also written about my February 20, 2013 visit. That article is scheduled to be published on Wednesday, February 27, 2013… Find it here: http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41

Some excerpts of that column may be found below, along a number of photographs…

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

The new Dali Museum in St. Petersburg Florida

Kevin E. Dayhoff

The new Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida has now been open for over two-years. The much-anticipated fantastical $36 million, 66,450 square foot museum doubled the capacity of the previous 1982 building that I had the opportunity to visit in February 2009.

The original museum had opened in a renovated marine warehouse March 7, 1982. According to a number of media accounts, the new museum – which is the home of 2,140 pieces of Salvador Dali’s art, including 96 oil paintings and eight huge master works - opened on the auspicious date of January 11, 2011 (1/11/11) at 11:11 a.m.

The museum in downtown St. Petersburg houses one of the most extensive collections of the art of Salvador Dali in the world. It began in Cleveland, OH, in 1942 where collecting Dali’s art was the lifelong passion of industrialist A. Reynolds Morse, and his wife Eleanor Reese Morse.

Alas, sadly my winter schedules in the last number of years have not included a visit to the Dali Museum, Tampa, and St. Petersburg or the opportunity to seeing the local sights such as the Sunshine Skyway – completed in 1987, it spans the mouth of Tampa Bay and is the world's longest cable-stayed concrete bridge.

This year I was able to juggle my schedule to see what the buzz is all about at what many are calling one of the world’s top-ten art destinations.

As you approach the HOK-designed museum, you are immediately impressed with the enormity of what appears at first glance to be a huge introverted enigmatic cubist-snail on steroids. The internationally recognized architect Yann Weymouth led the design team.

The museum structure is a magnificent adaption to a site with many design constraints, including but not limited to the fact that it houses one of the foremost collections of art in the world in a hurricane zone, just feet above sea level with a profound flood hazard…

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