June 9-18 2017
At the end of another long day of scoring, we used an Uber to go to St. Petersburg, a neighboring community known as "Sunshine City."
What? You don't recognize it?
Maybe this photo I took of the sign after our visit and when it had stopped raining will help. (Or maybe you know from the title of this post.)
This museum is actually the third museum to house this particular Dali collection. The first one was located in Beachwood, Ohio. It's opening was presided over by Dali himself. It drew so many visitors that a new museum was created out of an old marine warehouse in St. Petersburg in 1982. It was followed by this museum, built at a cost of $30 million in 2011.
At the end of another long day of scoring, we used an Uber to go to St. Petersburg, a neighboring community known as "Sunshine City."
Well, there wasn't any sunshine when we were there. We dashed through a downpour to our destination, a building marked by this famous signature:
What? You don't recognize it?
Maybe this photo I took of the sign after our visit and when it had stopped raining will help. (Or maybe you know from the title of this post.)
I had to borrow this photo of The Dali Museum from Wikipedia because it was just too wet to take my own photo. Built in 2011, The Dali, as it is affectionately known, houses the largest collection of Dali's works outside of Europe (2,400 at last count) and is one of only two major museums dedicated exclusively to his work, the other being in his hometown of Figueres, Spain.
