{"id":179066,"date":"2026-03-05T10:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179066\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:16:44","slug":"the-dali-museum-announces-65-million-35000-square-foot-expansion-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179066\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dal\u00ed Museum announces $65 million, 35,000-square-foot expansion plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Already a St. Pete icon, The Dal\u00ed Museum today announced plans for a $65 million, 35,000-square-foot expansion of its award-winning facilities. Groundbreaking is anticipated in the fall of 2026, and The Dal\u00ed will remain open throughout construction with plans to open its expanded spaces in 2028.<\/p>\n

The transformative expansion will introduce a striking new exterior, flexible gallery environments for experiential exhibitions that blend art and technology, a dedicated learning center serving K-12 students and lifelong learners, and community-focused spaces designed to support, host and animate social, corporate and cultural events. <\/p>\n

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\nRenderings by Designed by Beck Architecture and Harvard Jolly\/PBK with Yann Weymouth FAIA<\/p>\n

Together with the Museum\u2019s existing galleries, theater, dome and Avant-garden, the addition will create a dynamic campus that reflects how guests engage with art today and in the future. These spaces will form a vibrant hub where curiosity and empathy thrive, inviting visitors of all ages to experience art as an active, shared journey.<\/p>\n

Much of the early financial support for the massive expansion will come from Visit St. Pete-Clearwater through its From Visitors with Love<\/a> initiative, a direct reinvestment of tourist development tax funds, as a testament to Pinellas County\u2019s commitment to arts, innovation and cultural vitality.<\/p>\n

\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 Dal\u00ed Museum. \u201cThis is a defining moment for our institution and for St. Petersburg. It\u2019s not about being bigger; it\u2019s about being bolder. For more than four decades, The Dal\u00ed has led through innovation, empowering visitors to see differently and think expansively. This next chapter allows us to move beyond existing limitations and create space, intellectually and physically, for deeper learning, more ambitious experiences and broader access.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Beck Group, which constructed the Museum\u2019s landmark 2011 building, has been selected to design and build the expansion. Since opening in St. Petersburg in 1982, The Dal\u00ed has welcomed and inspired more than ten million visitors. Since the debut of its landmark building in 2011, the Museum has generated over $1 billion in economic impact for the area, solidifying its role as a global destination for groundbreaking interdisciplinary programming, innovation and scholarship.<\/p>\n

Learn more about The Dal\u00ed Museum\u2019s expansion plans here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Already a St. Pete icon, The Dal\u00ed Museum today announced plans for a $65 million, 35,000-square-foot expansion of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-179066","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\/179066","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=179066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}