I arrived in Figueres, Spain late Saturday evening. Figueres is the town Salvador Dali grew up in and I went to the infamous Dali museum in town today (on top right). The museum was amazing and was designed by Dali himself...so I guess I couldn't have expected any less. A lot of his big paintings and sculptural works are there. When you walk into the museum there is a huge garden-like space with a glass dome ceiling and many different golden statues perched in repressed sections of the surrounding wall. In the center is, hanging from above, is the yellow boat in which Dali and his wife Gala spent a lot of their time in...it's also painted into many of his pictures.
Once you get inside the building, you're greeted by a gigantic painting and the room splits off into different sections that generally lead you through the entire collection.
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| outside of Dali museum |
One of the first sections contains his tomb. A very haunting but beautiful place to lay him to rest I guess.
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| Dali and Gala's yellow sailboat |
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| Salvador Dali's tomb |
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| Main room of Dali Museum |
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| Space Elephant |
The last leg of the museum was a permanent exhibition of Dali's jewelry works, although many could never be actually worn. To enter the jewelry area you had to climb a kind of dizzying staircase. His jewelry was extraordinary and some of it even moved, the golden heart (pictured below) beat just like a real heart. However, my favorite was his golden space elephant; covered in gems with a crystal atop the elephants back.
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| Stairway to jewelry artworks |
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| Beating heart broach |
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