{"id":177961,"date":"2026-03-04T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177961\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:21:06","slug":"dali-museum-unveils-65-million-expansion-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177961\/","title":{"rendered":"Dali Museum unveils $65 million expansion in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedali.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Dali Museum<\/a> is preparing for a major expansion that will bring new galleries, learning spaces, and immersive art experiences to its downtown St. Pete waterfront campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Museum officials <a href=\"https:\/\/expansion.thedali.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">unveiled plans<\/a> on Wednesday for a $65 million expansion that will add approximately 35,000 square feet to the property at 1 Dali Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Construction is expected to begin in fall 2026, with the new spaces scheduled to open to the public in 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The expansion will introduce flexible gallery spaces designed for immersive exhibitions that blend art and technology, a dedicated learning center for K\u201312 students and adult education programs, and new community event spaces for gatherings and cultural programming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWe are creating a museum that will stand with the great cultural institutions of the world, prepared to meet the expectations of today\u2019s visitors and the curiosity of those who will walk through these doors decades from now,\u201d said Hank Hine, executive director of The Dali Museum. \u201cThis is a defining moment for our institution and for St. Petersburg. It\u2019s not about being bigger; it\u2019s about being bolder.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dali Museum is preparing for a major expansion that will bring new galleries, learning spaces, and immersive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-177961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}