The Dalí Theatre and Museum (Catalan:
Teatre-Museu Dalí), is a museum of the
artist Salvador Dalí in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia,
Spain. Dali is buried there in a crypt below the stage.
The heart of the museum is the building that
housed the town's theater when Dalí was a child, where one of the
first public exhibitions of young Dalí's art was shown. The old
theater was burned during the Spanish Civil War and remained in a
state of ruin for decades. In 1960, Dalí and the mayor of Figueres
decided to rebuild it as a museum dedicated to the town's most famous
son.
The museum displays the single largest and most
diverse collection of works by Salvador Dalí, the core of which was
from the artist's personal collection.
A glass geodesic
dome cupola crowns the stage of the old theater, and Dalí himself is
buried in a crypt below the stage floor. The space formerly
occupied by the audience has been transformed into a courtyard open
to the sky,
Photos from 2016
