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Salvador Dali Museum

Museum · St. Petersburg, Florida

A museum established on March 7, 1982 at an earlier location and relocated to its current purpose-built building on January 11, 2011. Its collection includes 96 oil paintings, over 100 watercolors and drawings, 1,300 graphics, photographs, sculptures and objets d'art, plus an extensive archival library, and the encyclopedia describes it as holding more Dali masterworks than any museum other than the Dali Theatre-Museum in Spain. Its own site gives hours of 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, and to 8 p.m. on Thursdays. Whether it is operating today is not established here, for a reason set out in the guide: the evidence the research first offered for it was a quotation that does not exist in the source it was attributed to. No street address is published: no verdict in this research carries one for it.

History

The building was designed by HOK with Yann Weymouth and built by The Beck Group, reportedly costing over $30 million — the source hedges the figure as a report, and the hedge is kept. It has a glass "Enigma" entryway 75 feet tall with a spiral staircase, and 18-inch-thick concrete walls designed for hurricane protection.

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