School Tours Program

The Dalí Museum hosts over 7,000 students on group tours each year. These tours are the core of the Museum’s education mission, and they are free for students and their teachers. Museum docents provide regular tours to visiting school groups, and are prepared to offer specialized tours upon request. While children’s group tour fees are normally $5 each, the Dalí Museum offers these tours for free during the school year in commitment to education.

DalíVision Outreach to Schools

The Dalívision Outreach to schools is similar to our outreach program for adults but is targeted to schools– from elementary to high school.

Student Surrealist Art Exhibit

Annual two week exhibition presenting the work of Pinellas County middle and high school students demonstrating the ongoing popularity and attraction of Surrealism for new generations of artists. Area art teachers conduct lessons on Dalí and Surrealism and use field trips as a way to prepare their students for the exhibit. The exhibition is held in February in the Raymond James Community Room. The Museum holds a reception to give awards to both magnet program students and regular schools in different categories. The Museum regularly receives approximately 300 entries out of which 100 are chosen to be exhibited. 3D and video categories will be added to the 2006 exhibition.

Scholastic Art & Writing Exhibit

Annual juried exhibition hosted by the Dalí Museum in collaboration with the Pinellas County School System, Raymond James Financial, and the St. Petersburg Festival of States. Exhibition features work by Pinellas County students selected for the national Scholastic Arts and Writing Competition.

“Get Surreal with Salvador Dalí!” Video

A fast-paced video designed as a classroom aid for teachers as a pre-visit educational tool. In order to make student tours even more interesting and rewarding, this 30 minute video prepares students for their Dalí Museum visit by introducing students to the artist himself, includes images and information about Surrealism, and suggests creative activities. Directed by Steve Burcham and made possible by a 1998 grant from the Pinellas County Arts Council, Get Surreal uses a fast paced format where “Dalí TV” takes the viewer through a channel surfing adventure between vintage footage and live action. The two middle-school age hosts introduce students to Dalí and Surrealism, and demonstrate classroom activities such as collage and the “Exquisite Corpse” game. The video is available for free to Pinellas County schools and may be requested through the Dalí Museum Education Department.

“The Dalí Times” Newspaper in Education

Created in collaboration between the Dalí Museum and the St. Petersburg Times, this great supplemental text contains classroom activities including a wide range of language arts and vocabulary exercises, using symbols, finding polygons, map reading, Spanish culture, and a special pull out section students can use to create their own newspaper. This fun and exciting student paper demonstrates the varieties of ways in which Dalí’s creativity and his fine art is connected with seemingly opposing media such as advertising, cinema, and fashion design. Copies are available for free to teachers and their students through the St. Petersburg Times’ Newspaper in Education website: http://nieonline.com/sptimes/details.cfm?feature=2005dali

Enterprise Village Dalí Poster Exhibit

Enterprise Village is an economic education facility founded by the Pinellas County School District and the Pinellas County Education Foundation. It is a program that teaches students the concepts of business and economics by requiring each student to choose a career for a day. As part of this project, one of the careers is curator for the model art center. In 1997, the Dalí Museum made a gift of framed Dalí reproductions for the art center “collection.” The display is part of a hands-on work-related program. This economics program is required of every fifth grader in the Pinellas County school system, serving 17,000 school children each year. It operates from mid October through the end of May each year.