Salvador Dalí is a surrealist artist renowned for his technical skills, precise craftsmanship, striking and bizarre images – created one of the most unique and breathtaking works of the century. Among the museums around the world that display his work, the Dalí Theatre and Museum or Teatro Museo Dalí, is one of the chicest of its kind because Dalí conceptualized the museum project himself and built it in his hometown of Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.
Dalí once said of this museum, “I want my museum to be a single block, a labyrinth, a great Surrealist object. It will be a totally theatrical museum. The people who come to see it will leave with the sensation of having had a theatrical dream.”
The Dalí Theatre and Museum was built in 1968 and was completed and opened to the public in 1974. The original building was the Figueres City Theatre. But the theatre was burned down during the Spanish Civil War. Dalí was deeply connected to this place because when he was 14, his father organized an exhibition of his work in the lobby of the theatre. After Dalí became famous all over the world, he returned to his hometown to create a museum that would showcase his identity as much as possible.
