Salvador Dalí’s childhood home in Figueres opens doors to immersive experience

Art lovers and Salvador Dalí fans have another reason to travel to Figueres in Northern Catalonia. The surrealist painter’s childhood home has, after months of delay, been transformed into a museum and opened its doors to the public.  

Casa Natal Salvador Dalí is an immersive experience that includes holograms, audiovisual projection mappings and an audio guide, where visitors can dive into the background, time period and artistic phases of Dalí. 

Mariona Seguranyes, Figueres’s Counselor of Culture, told the Catalan News Agency (ACN) that the artist’s background presented at the family home is “essential” to understanding his work, his life and Dalí as a person. 

An audio guide will lead visitors on a tour of approximately one hour through the three-story building, which includes private spaces like Dalí’s childhood room, the family dining room and his father’s notary business on the ground floor.  

The museum will also have a temporary exhibition of Dalí’s art borrowed from other museums or private collections. This inaugural art gallery will showcase paintings of Dalí’s family members, originally displayed at The National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) in Barcelona.  

According to the director of the Museum of Empordà, Eduard Bech, the Casa Natal Salvador Dalí is the museum piece that has been missing: “There are many museums with his artwork, but none that exclusively speak about Dalí himself.” 

The opening of the family home has been long underway, starting almost 30 years ago in 1995, when the city administration bought the first parts of the building, located in the city center on Carrer de Monturiol 20. The building has been fully restored inside-out to accommodate visitors. 

To ensure the quality of the visit, tours will be done in groups of eight people maximum. 

The museum will hold an open house for all Figueres residents until October 25 and will open to the general public on October 26.