New Salvador Dali Museum Building in Florida

January 11, 2011 (11/1/11) at 11:11 in the American city of St. Petersburg (Florida) opened an updated museum of Salvador Dali. The museum was originally opened in 1982. Industrialist and collector Reynolds Morse and his wife Eleanor Reese have put together an extensive collection of works by Salvador Dali and today there are more Dali masterpieces in this museum than in any other museum in the world outside of Spain.

The construction of a new building cost $ 36 million. It is expected that the annual attendance of the museum will increase to 200 thousand people a year, which will bring American St. Petersburg up to $ 50 million in annual profit. The area of the new building, the construction of which began in December 2008, is two times larger than the previous one. Its internal territory is more than 20 thousand square meters. The building is constructed of hard concrete and is able to withstand a hurricane of the fifth category.

Throughout 2011, the renovated museum will host the exhibition “Viva la Revelacion!” (“Long live the revelation!”), Dedicated to the opening of the new museum building. All 2140 works of Dali from the permanent collection will be exhibited, including 96 paintings by the great surrealist.

The guest of honor at the opening of the museum was attended by Spanish Infanta Cristina Federica Victoria Antonia de la Santissima Trinidad, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca.

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