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/

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Anna Fader

Founder of Mommy Poppins

A fourth-generation Brooklynite, Anna started Mommy Poppins in 2007 to help families find the best things to do with kids in NYC, with a particular emphasis on sharing activities that are free, affordable, and enriching. The site, used by millions of families, has grown to become the ultimate resource for parents in the major US cities, plus travel guides for 100s of destinations.

Anna is a believer in the magic of summer camps, traveling with kids, and that you can raise kids on a budget and still have a rich life full of amazing memories. Anna's first Mommy Poppins book, The Young Traveler's Journal and Activity Book, published in 2025 and co-written with her daughter, Amelia Eigerman, brings that ethos to life, in addition to this website.