Salvador Dali Museum

The Salvador Dali Museum is the flagship of cultural tourism on the west coast of Florida and welcomed over 302,471 visitors in the past year from around the world. Our education and outreach programs serve the Florida, national, and world communities in a multitude of ways. The art of Dali is interpreted through free docent tours, mp3 guided tours, signage, and the Museum gallery guide. Our internet resources prepare visitors for their experience and offer educational information. Our student and teacher programs include student group tours, student surreal exhibitions in art and video, internships, junior and teen docent training programs, teacher curriculum workshops, and summer recreation programs. The Museum offers weekly family-centric activities and tours and daily activities for young visitors to deepen their experience of Salvador Dali's work and the Museum in general. The Museum offers docent training classes to adults, docent-led tours of the main exhibits, and lecture and film series hosted on and off-site. The Museum store - one of the most dynamic in the Museum world with books and educational material as top sellers reflects and extends the exhibition experience both on site and online. Exhibition catalogs are published to accompany new exhibitions. The Dali Museum maintains strong partnerships with the community of st. petersburg, Florida, the county it is located in, and the state of Florida as well as museums and educational institutions around the world. The Museum's state of the art facility is designed to protect its collection and welcome its visitors. The Museum strives to continually add to the collection with acquisitions of paintings, drawings and prints. The Museum's extensive archival library is key to the advances in the academic research on topics from Dali to surrealism and to interpretations of contemporary art today. The Dali Museum continues to preserve and protect its collection, making it available for the enjoyment and education of all people with special opportunities for the members of our local community, enhancing the public appreciation of Salvador Dali, his life, and his work.