Art fans can now peek into the future of The Dalí Museum.
The St. Petersburg museum unveiled updated renderings Thursday morning of its upcoming 35,000-square-foot expansion — including a fly-through video that explores how the space will blend with the existing museum footprint.
The $65 million project, announced in March, will include new gallery spaces to combine art and technology, a learning center for K-12 students and adults, event spaces for corporate and cultural events and a “striking new exterior.”
The expansion is helmed by the Beck Group, an architectural firm that transformed The Dalí Museum with a new building in 2011.
“The exterior design, what we call Reveal, plays with expectation,” said Trevor Lamphier, design principal at The Beck Group, in the March news release. “It extends and reinterprets the existing building, using familiar materials in new ways to create moments of discovery. Like Dalí’s work, the architecture invites a double take, rewarding curiosity and encouraging visitors to slow down and look again.”
The new video rendering takes viewers around and inside the addition, showing new spaces like digital exhibitions and a terrace with a view of St. Pete’s waterfront. Watch it here:
To learn more about the museum’s history and evolution, visitors can check out a new exhibit that opened on May 2, titled “The Architecture of Dalí.”
On display through mid-April 2027 and included with regular gallery admission, the exhibit features a 3D model, archival photos and a trove of historical documents that trace The Dalí’s path from a factory in Ohio to the waterfront museum in St. Pete. Over 10 million visitors have basked in the work of surrealist Salvador Dalí since the museum opened in St. Pete in 1982.
To learn more, visit thedali.org.
