Dali Museum in St Petersburg, Florida: A (Sur)Really Unique Museum Experience

9/28/12 - By Anna Fader

One of my favorite outings from our trip to Clearwater Beach Florida, was a day trip we took to St Petersburg to visit the Salvador Dali Museum. The Dali Museum has a huge collection of Dali paintings from his days as a student through his entire career. Kids should find the surrealistic paintings interesting, observing the odd juxtapositions of images, hidden pictures within pictures, as well as the famous melting clocks.

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Audio guides in both children's and adult versions are free with admission and will definitely send you home with a much better understanding of the life and work of Salvador Dali. We took a docent-led tour and I learned a lot from our guide that gave me a better understanding of his work and the man. It was really interesting.

Even the building is fascinating at the Dali Museum. Created to withstand a category 5 hurricane, the main structure is a concrete box with an ameoba-shaped glass dome wrapped around the side. Math nerds will enjoy the fact that the central staircase bannister is a Mobius strip, making an infinite loop.

Before you go home, make sure to stop in at the Avant-Garden, where children can sit on a melting bench, stand beneatha d giant Dali mustaches and add their wish to the tree of wishes.

The Dali Museum hosts free family programs almost every day to help introduce young children to the world of Salvador Dali and is an educational and inspiring destination for everyone in the family.

Find out current specifics to plan your visit at thedali.org/

About the Author

Anna Fader

Founder & CEO of Mommy Poppins
Anna was born in Park Slope, spent her early years in the West Village. By the time she graduated high school, she had lived in 4 of the 5 boroughs. Growing up in NYC in the '70s meant the streets were her playgrounds. Museums and avant garde music venues were the kid-friendly activities. And living downtown taught her the importance of creating community for families in NYC.

Now, raising her own two children in the city, she tries to create the same sense of magic and community she felt growing up, despite today's more commercialized version of kid-friendly New York.

She started Mommy Poppins in 2007 to share a more artsy, educational, uncommercial, community-oriented vision of raising kids in New York City. Today Mommy Poppins is relied on by millions of families as the authority on the best things to do with kids beyond New York City: from Boston to Philly, Los Angeles, Houston and travel guides for dozens more cities and destinations.