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Post by shadowdragon on May 26, 2015 3:14:01 GMT
The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg Florida is home to the largest collection of Dali's work outside Europe. It originally opened on March 7, 1982 in a warehouse in St. Petersburg. The museum opened in it's current location on January 11, 2011. This structure features a large glass entryway and skylight[4] made of 1.5 inch thick glass. Referred to as the “Enigma”, the glass entryway is 75 feet tall and encompasses a spiral staircase. The remaining walls are composed of 18-inch thick concrete, designed to protect the collection from hurricanes. The museum's collection includes 96 oil paintings, over 100 watercolors and drawings, 1,300 graphics, photographs, sculptures and objets d'art, an extensive archival library along with being home to 7 of the 18 "masterwork" paintings by Dalí (including The Hallucinogenic Toreador and The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus), the most of any museum in the world. To be considered a masterwork these paintings must measure at least 5 feet (1.5 m) in any direction, and have been worked on for over a year. Salvador Dali MuseumSalvador Dali Museum.kmz (1.36 KB) I went to it today and Dali's work is incredible, it gives meaning to the phrase "A picture is worth a 1000 words.".
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