Salvador Dali Museum in Florida

The American Museum, which contains a collection of works by the famous Spanish artist Salvador Dali. A year the museum is visited by about 200 thousand tourists from all over the world.

The Salvador Dalí Museum was opened in Florida in 1982 by a Morse couple who had been friends with Dalí since 1982 and owned a large collection of his works. The collection of the museum contains watercolors, sketches, paintings and sculptures of the great Spanish surrealist with a total of 2,140 exhibits. Among them are 96 oil paintings, more than 100 watercolors and drawings by Salvador Dali, 1,300 graphic works, photographs, sculptures and art objects, as well as an extensive archive library. It is the largest collection of Dali works outside Spain.

The new museum building opened in 2011. Its construction lasted two years and cost $36 million.