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Teatro MuseoThe Teatro Museo (in Spanish language) or Teatre-Museu (in the now preferred Catalan language) or Theatre Museum is the Salvador Dal Museum in his home town, Figueres, Catalonia, Spain; in full it is called the "Teatre Museu Gala Salvador Dal". The heart of the Museum was the building which housed the town's theatre when Dal was a child, and where one of the first public exhibitions of young Dal's art was shown. The old theater was bombed in the Spanish Civil War and remained in a state of ruin for decades until Dal and the mayor of Figueres decided to rebuild it as a museum dedicated to the town's most famous son in 1960. The museum also occupies buildings and courtyards adjacent to the old theater building. The museum opened in 1974, with continuing expansions through the mid 1980s. It houses the single largest and most diverse collection of works by Salvador Dal, the heart of which was from the artist's own collection. In addition to Dal paintings large and small from all decades of his career, there are Dal sculptures, 3-dimensional collages, mechanical devices, a living-room with custom furniture that looks like the face of Mae West when viewed from a certain spot, and other curiosities from Dal's imagination. The museum also houses a small selection of works by other artists collected by Dal, ranging from El Greco to Marcel Duchamp, and a gallery devoted to the work of Dal's friend and fellow Catalan artist Antoni Pitxot (who became director of the Museum after Dal's death). Dal is buried in a crypt in the Theater-Museum's basement. Photos
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