Salvador Dalí’s 120th birthday party happens in St. Pete this weekend

Admission to the Dalí Museum is slashed to $19.04.

By Ray Roa on Wed, May 8, 2024 at 10:40 am

Salvador Dalí’s 120th birthday party happens in St. Pete this weekend

(c) Paul Facchetti: Image Rights of Salvador Dalí reserved. Funfació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2023

It’s been 100 years since André Breton published his “Manifeste du surréalisme,” a booklet that sought to define what surrealism is. Loyal to the French writer and poet was Salvador Dalí, who, at least in Tampa Bay, defines the movement.

The local museum that bears Dalí’s name (and houses the world’s second largest collection of his work) celebrates what would’ve been his 120th birthday, and the city is declaring May 11 as “Salvador Dalí Day.” Admission is slashed to $19.04 for the afternoon, and kids under 12 get in free.

Free commemorative birthday cards will be available while supplies last, while games are planned in the Avant-Garden. They’re singing happy birthday at 1:20 p.m.

Salvador Dalí Day happens at St. Petersburg’s Dalí Museum happening Saturday, May 11.
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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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