Tourist Tuesday

As we were driving over to St. Petersburg to see the Dali Museum, we remembered it was Tuesday.   That made it Tourist Tuesday!  We hadn't had one of those for awhile.

The museum was outstanding!  The building is beautiful from the outside and the inside. There are two huge galleries on the third floor.  The permanent Dali collection is in one and rotating exhibits are in the other.  This time there was a Picasso exhibit in there.  The twist to that one is that it also had Dali's art with it.  The two men knew each other, Picasso being a bit over 20 years older than Dali.  Dali studied with him and they remained in touch all their lives.  It was very interesting to see two pieces on a similar subject, one by each man, right next to each other.  Free audio guides are available, so Mark and I each had one.  The descriptions, history, and backgrounds of the works, plus the comparisons, were fascinating.  We listened to every thing on the recording and spent three hours in there all together.  If there was another interesting traveling exhibit in there, we would go again.

We were allowed to take pictures outside in the garden, inside the lobby area, and in the Dali permanent exhibit, but no photography of any kind was allowed in the Picasso gallery.  I took only a few pictures in the Dali exhibit and several outside.  Enjoy a few here.

View from third floor lobby, beautiful.

From Dali's early Impressionist period.

Mark's favorite of Dali's early period.

The audio guide was the son of the founders of this museum.  He said this painting, which was HUGE, was in his childhood bedroom.  Odd choice for a child, I thought.

The famous Atomic Clock painting is actually quite small.

Outside in the garden in back.

Posing between the two sides of the giant sculpture depicting Dali's famous moustache.

Checking the time?

With a large piece of rock from Cadaques, Spain, donated to the museum because Dali loved that town.

Peeking out behind a pine tree in the center of the labyrinth.