10 Surreally Shocking Images From St. Petersburg’s Salvador Dali Museum. If you’ve never been to the Salvador Dali Museum in St Pete, you need to get real. Sorry, correction. you need to get Surreal! Download the Dali App and go it alone, or get a tour and learn more than you ever wanted to know about Dali, and yourself. With the Dali APP you can use your phone to see Virtual Reality paintings (see sample VR painting at bottom of page) come to life and you wonder, “How did he know we’d all have mobile phones to do this?” Paintings and sculptures like you’ve never seen, but may have dreamed. Warning: If you take a selfie, you get the Cool Dali Museum Stache. Weekday afternoons are best (smaller crowd) time to visit in downtown St Pete.

• Shoe Hats “Very popular”

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  Our guide wearing a more formal dress shoe hat, Mine is a Hoka! She said, "People have done this in bars when I wear this, but you're the first to do it it here in the Museum." Not sure if that was meant to be bad or good thing?

• Wish Tree

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• Wish Tree

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  Thinking all these wishes are lottery related? Prove me wrong ; ) OK, maybe some wishes are Bucs, Bolts, Rays, Rowdies related. May be how we got to be Champa Bay?
• Lobster Phone

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• Lobster Phone

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  Of course kids have never seen a rotary phone, so this one puzzles in more ways than one. Yes it evolved from an actual lobster dinner. There may have been wine involved also. And you "butter" call me.

• Rainy Rolls

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• Rainy Rolls

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  Are we under water? Or is it just him?

• Rainy Rolls

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  Is it OK to drop a line and fish a little from the back seat? Better ask first.

• Jungle Gym?

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  Really, really wanted to climb on this like a Dali Spider Man ; )
• Blind Drawings

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• Blind Drawings

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  Canosa's artistic challenge. Each blind sketch done from a slightly different angle. If you don't find this fascinating as you walk around the room seeing every drawing, looking back at the tree, you've likely never held a crayon.

• Blind Drawings

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• Giant Dali Stache

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  In 2010 the Dali mustache was named the most famous mustache of all time. This is big. Surreally big!

• Christ Of St John

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• Christ Of St John

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  The Ascension of Christ has been a popular subject matter of Old Masters, such as Caravaggio, Titian, and Rembrandt, whom Salvador Dali highly admires. Dali said that his inspiration for The Ascension of Christ came from a "cosmic dream' that he had in 1950, some eight years before his painting was completed.

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