Dalí Universe, Art museum in County Hall, London Borough of Lambeth, United Kingdom.
Dalí Universe is an art museum on the South Bank in central London dedicated entirely to the work of Salvador Dalí. The collection brings together bronzes, lithographs, glass objects, and designed furniture produced over several decades of his career.
The museum opened in 2000 near the London Eye, on a stretch of the South Bank that was being redeveloped at the time. The works on show were produced from the 1930s through the 1980s, tracing Dalí's career from his early surrealist period to his later years.
The gallery shows how Dalí moved between painting, sculpture, and object design without treating any of these as separate from the others. Visitors can see how the same dreamlike imagery reappears across very different materials and formats throughout the rooms.
The museum is on the South Bank, a short walk from Waterloo station and close to the river path that connects several other galleries and venues. Visiting on a weekday morning usually means fewer people in the rooms, which makes it easier to spend time in front of the works.
The collection includes a painting Dalí made specifically for the dream sequence in Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 film Spellbound. Hitchcock approached Dalí because he wanted the dream to feel genuinely strange rather than rely on the soft-focus effects typical of Hollywood at the time.
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