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An Apollonaut travel guide
A museum on the waterfront.
An introduction to downtown St. Petersburg, where The Dalí Museum stands by the bay beside the Mahaffey Theater.
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Read the waterfront
The museum stands at One Dalí Boulevard on the downtown waterfront, on the former site of the Bayfront Center arena, beside the Mahaffey Theater. The Looper trolley and the Cross Bay Ferry serve the area.
A city guide can give context without turning a neighbourhood into a backdrop. Notice how the museum, the theatre, the marina and the parks share the shoreline.
Concrete and glass
The building pairs plain concrete walls, 18 inches thick, with the free-form glass of the Enigma, made from glass 1.5 inches thick.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made. A photograph alone cannot tell you how each pane was shaped and fixed, or the conditions in which people worked.
A museum chapter
The Dalí Museum shows one side of modern St. Petersburg: a city that campaigned to bring a collection to Florida and later built it a new home on the bay.
Look at the meeting of the two: a storm-proof box for the art, and a glass bubble that opens it to the light.
Make room for context
Pair this city reading with the museum’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents their makers.
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Sources & further reading
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