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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 visit and see for
myself what the buzz is all about at the new Salvador Dali Museum, which many
are calling one of the world’s top-ten art destinations. Find a number
of pictures here…
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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. 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. The collection 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.
[20130223 sdosm My visit to the new Dali Museum]
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in St. Petersburg Florida
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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
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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