Salvador Dalí House Museum

I’m not a fan of Dalí. I think he’s a completely overrated artist, with great aptitude but he ended up becoming a clown and greedy businessman. Saying this, the Theater Museum in Figueres is worth seeing and I really enjoyed my visit there. Its name describes just what it is – it’s a theater where you can see the representation of the life and work of the artist, as well as his death, as his body is buried there below the museum’s dome.

I visited in November and there were a good amount of people at the museum. I’ve been told summer is intolerable. With the entrance ticket, you can see the small museum of jewelry designed by Dalí and the museum of Figueres.

On entering Dali´s house, you understand that whatever was going on in his mind was nowhere near ordinary. Surrealism surrounded him and this is reflected in his house, built over time, gradually buying the adjoining houses of fishermen to create an intricate labyrinth that unleashes your imagination. Highlights include the room where he painted, a bedroom with a mirror to reflect the rising sun and welcome the new day. Dalí, a genius and figure.

I have loved this place and bought many tickets to go here, treating many friends. This summer when I visited, I bought all 8 tickets for one group so that we wouldn’t have to go inside with non-vaccinated people. Covid is a serious illness and is easily transmissible. Always before the largest tour group was 8 people. But without informing anyone, the museum changed the group size to 10. And then, some of my guests didn’t show and they refused to honor that I paid for these tickets. Consequently, they crowded our tour group with people who were not vaccinated (those people told us) and they were not wearing masks.