Holograms, projections, mappings: immersive tour at Salvador Dalí's childhood home

Salvador Dalí's childhood home will soon be open to the public for visits and tours, including the very room in which the artist was born. 

The new immersive tour will feature the use of new technologies, such as holograms, projections, and mappings, in order to tell the story of the artist's most "intimate" as well as "public" life.

The building in Figueres, northern Catalonia, will be fully open to the public by the second half of 2023, but some lucky visitors were able to see a preview of the spectacle as part of the local festival, the Fires de la Santa Creu. 

Eduard Bech, the director of the project, told the Catalan News Agency that his team had the "opportunity to interpret" the figure of the artist, to get to know Dalí better and share that with the world. 

They want visits to Dalí's childhood home to "complement visits to other spaces related to Dalí," such as the Dalí Museum in Figueres, Salvador and Gala's home in Portlligat, and the Gala Dalí Castle in Púbol, to "give people more resources to better understand his work." 

Visitors will be given audioguides in Catalan, Spanish, French, or English to follow the tour, through which they will hear the voices of two people, a woman and of Dalí himself, as they explore the building where the artist was born in 1904.

All floors will be open to the public including the first, which houses the room where the artist was born and still preserves the original paint.

"Everything will be very experiential," said Eduard Bech. "We want to surprise visitors."

"This place is not only where the genius was born, but it is the starting point of his career and Salvador Dalí's life," Figueres mayor Agnès Lladó said.