{"id":263611,"date":"2026-05-08T16:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263611\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:19:32","slug":"inside-the-dali-museums-planned-65-million-expansion-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263611\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Dal\u00ed Museum\u2019s planned $65 million expansion in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWith the facade we tried to build on that complementary nature and are using the same materials of the existing building, but rendered with heavy texture,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The 3D model and video tour are part of <a href=\"https:\/\/thedali.org\/exhibit\/the-architecture-of-the-dali\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Architecture of The Dal\u00ed exhibit<\/a>, which debuted May 2nd and explores the museum\u2019s history, evolution, and future vision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A second exhibit, <a href=\"https:\/\/thedali.org\/exhibit\/dali-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dal\u00ed in America<\/a>, opens Saturday and examines how American culture helped shape Salvador Dal\u00ed into a global icon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThey both involve a sense of transformation of how our building has transformed with the story we are telling, and how America was transformed by Dal\u00ed,\u201d Museum Executive Director Hank Hine said during the press conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWhat we hope people will take away is a sense of how a building can become a mechanism of art, and that evolves over time,\u201d Hine added. \u201cWe want it to be a place for people to get new ideas and preserve that sense of social space, which is increasingly missing in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWith the facade we tried to build on that complementary nature and are using the same materials of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-263611","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\/263611","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=263611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}