The Museum is moving forward with the construction of the new building, and the walls are rising at an ever increasing rate. One exciting part of the new Museum is the Rock from Cadaqués, taken from the same area that inspired Dali in so many of his paintings. St. Petersburgs’ Mayor, Rick Baker, and the Mayor of Cadaqués Joan Borrell will dedicate this marvelous boulder to the new Museum on September 25.

The Rock's home (and Dali's)

The City of Cadaqués

Dali lived and worked most of his life in Spain. The landscape of his native land – Catalonia – was his chief inspiration. Catalonia, an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain, is home to Cap de Creus, a rugged peninsula on the Mediterranean, and the coastal towns of Cadaques and Port Lligat.

His surreal landscapes drew their fantastic imagery from the wind-swept rocks of this area, as he says, “Cap de Creus . . . the epic spot where the mountains of the Pyrenees come down to the sea, in a grandiose geological delirium. There, no more olive trees or vines. Only the elementary and planetary violence of the most diverse and the most paradoxically assembled rocks . . . these rocks which were so greatly to influence me.”

One of the rock-inspired paintings	The Dali Cornerstone Rock
The Rock in its crate until Sept. 25