# The Dalí Theatre-Museum opens in Figueres as a public house of works

Date: 1974

## The fact

On 28 September 1974 the Dalí Theatre-Museum opened in [Figueres](/people/christiana-figueres) as a public museum of his works. This Fact stores that door, not the Franco-era branding sibling.

It is one event.

## Context

A hometown museum can teach and can be a territorial logo. Split 1974 polarisation.

[Salvador Dalí](/people/salvador-dali)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Same 28 September 1974 opening as the regime-brand row. Access and spectacle share a spine. He designed the conversion of the municipal theatre. Later Fundació runs it.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Fundació’s Theatre-Museum page and Britannica independently date the 1974 opening.

Official or archival record: Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí — Dalí Theatre-Museum, Figueres (https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/museums/dali-theatre-museum-in-figueres/; Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí).

## Significance

A purpose-built public Dalí museum increased durable access beyond auction rooms.

Keep the regime-brand sibling.

A purpose-built public Dalí museum increased durable access beyond auction rooms.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 28 September 1974 Figueres public museum. Not established: that 1974 cancelled 1934 expulsion.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Salvador Dalí.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Salvador Dalí: https://factrail.ai/people/salvador-dali

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali
- https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/museums/dali-theatre-museum-in-figueres/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-figueres-access