St Petersburg has the largest collection of Dali's works outside of Spain. The Salvador Dali Museum is currently located in a waterfront building that has an unexciting exterior. All that is about to change with the new building that's coming to Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. Groundbreaking is scheduled for December 12th, with completion in the fall of 2010.

Yann Weymouth has designed this Daliesque structure with the flowing glass dome that oozes around the concrete block. What a sight looking out through the glass to the Tampa Bay waterfront! There's also a unique spiral staircase that leads up to the 3rd floor galleries and continues into a sculpture as you look up.

This will be a great complement to the adjacent Mahaffey Theater and to the other wonderful museums along the waterfront in downtown St Petersburg.

Come spend a weekend at the historic Renaissance Vinoy Hotel and visit The Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of History, the Holocaust Museum, the Dali Museum, and check out the numerous small galleries.

You might even want to come during the annual Mainsail Arts Festival held in our beautiful downtown waterfront parks. The 34th annual festival will be held on April 18 and 19, 2009.

11/28:  You're invited to the Groundbreaking of the new Salvador Dali Museum.