We had planned a trip to Figueres, where the famous Teatre – Museu Dali is located, for a long time. Originally we wanted to take the train from Barcelona but after checking the train ticket prices we found it cheaper to rent a car (for tickets for our 4 from Barcelona to Figueres we would have paid over 100 €). So, as a result, we went there during our week in Pineda de Mar (about that in another post).

Teatre – Museu Dali, is a museum dedicated to the work of Salvador Dali in his hometown. The heart of the museum is the old city theater, well known to Dali. In the 1960s, Dali and the mayor of Figueres decided to rebuild the previously destroyed theater and create a museum in it. As a result, it was opened in 1974 and developed until the mid-1980s. The museum houses the largest collection of the artist’s works, including his paintings, sculptures, installations and a collection of jewelry designed by the artist.
The museum also houses a small collection of works by other artists that were collected by Dali himself (eg works by El Greco). In addition, on the 2nd floor there is a gallery of works by Antoni Pitxot, who was a friend of Salvador and became the director of the museum after Dali’s death.
Dali himself is buried in a crypt below the stage.

It took us about 1.5 hours to visit the museum and we didn’t get the impression that the children were bored. Adam liked the building with “eggs” on the roof from the very beginning and he was talking about it even few days after the visit. Both kids wanted to see the painting on the ceiling depicting the feet of Salvador and his wife Gala (which I told them about earlier). Adam did say that he liked Picasso’s work more, because the latter sometimes painted dogs, and in any of Salvador Dali’s paintings we were unable to find this Adam’s favorite pet. But I think that despite the fact that there were no dogs, he liked it anyway. Gabriela liked the Mae West room the most, a three-dimensional installation with special furniture, which when viewed from a specific place looks like the face of Mae West (an American theater and film actress, who died in 1980).
For me and Tomasz, it was not the first visit to this museum, but we decided that surreal art would be something interesting for children and that it is worth taking them there. I don’t think we were mistaken.

Adult tickets are € 20, discounted € 13, kids under 8 go free. It is best to buy tickets online in advance for a given hour, because on the spot it may turn out that the next free entry is available in a few hours.