Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sights
Most of the action is around and along Central Ave, from 8th Ave to Bayshore Dr, which
fronts the harbor and tourist pier.
St Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts
MUSEUM
( 727-896-2667;
www.fine-arts.org
;
255 Beach Dr NE; adult/child $17/10; 10am-5pm Mon-Sat,
to 8pm Thu, from noon Sun)
The Museum of Fine Arts collection is as broad as the Dalí's is
deep, traversing the world's antiquities and following art's progression through nearly
every era.
Florida Holocaust Museum
MUSEUM
( 727-820-0100;
www.flholocaustmuseum.org
;
55 5th St S; adult/child $16/8; 10am-5pm)
The understated exhibits of this Holocaust museum, one of the country's largest, present
these mid-20th-century events with moving directness.
Chihuly Collection
GALLERY
( 727-896-4527;
www.chihulycollectionstpete.com
;
400 Beach Dr; adult/child $15/11;
10am-5pm Mon-Sat, from noon Sun)
A paean to Dale Chihuly's glass artistry, with galleries
designed to hold the dramatic installations.
DON'T MISS
SALVADOR DALÍ MUSEUM
Of course St Petersburg was the logical place to put a museum dedicated to Sal-
vador Dalí, the eccentric Spanish artist who painted melting clocks, grew an exag-
gerated handlebar mustache to look like King Philip, and once filled a Rolls Royce
Blvd; adult/child 6-12yr $21/7, after 5pm Thu $10; 10am-5:30pm Mon-Sat, to 8pm Thu, noon-5:30pm
Sun)
is the largest Dalí collection outside of Spain. So how did that happen exactly?
In 1942, A. Reynolds Morse and his wife Eleanor began what would become the
largest private Dalí collection in the world. When it came time to find a permanent
home for the collection, they had one stipulation: that the collection had to stay to-
gether. Only three cities could agree to the terms, and St Petersburg won out for its
waterfront location.
The museum now has a brand-new building with a theatrical exterior that, when
seen from the bay side, looks like a geodesic atrium oozing out of a shoebox. It
doesn't have themelting clocks, but it does have somemelting clocks, as well as
