Detailed interactive map Dali Theatre and Museum
The Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres, itself the world's biggest Surrealist object, contains a huge range of Dali's work, with some of his finest pieces - not to be missed. In addition to Dali paintings from all decades of his career, there are Dali sculptures, 3-dimensional collages, mechanical devices, and other curiosities from Dali's imagination.
The museum opened in 1974, with continuing expansions through the mid-1980s. The site originally housed the Municipal Theatre which was constructed in the 19th century and was destroyed in 1939 at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Currently, the Dali Theatre-Museum houses approximately 1,500 pieces of art of varying mediums from sculpture to painting and drawing, from engraving to photography and much more. Visitors can see the Mae West Room in which the furnishings create the illusion of huge lips, and then Dali's Cadillac, which, he boasts, is one of only six of its kind, others being owned by Roosevelt, Clark Gable and Al Capone. Dali tells the travelers of the alchemist's fascination with creating gold, and of his own parallel obsession with creating the perfect illusion through his immaculate painting technique, by which he claims (presumably in opposition to Expressionism) to have `saved modern painting from slackness and chaos.'
