The Dalí Theater-Museum is a museum entirely dedicated to the painter Salvador Dalí, located in Plaza Gala-Salvador Dalí, number 5, in Figueras (Gerona province, Catalonia, Spain).

According to The Art Newspaper, based on data provided by the museums themselves, the Dalí Theater-Museum was the third most visited museum in Spain in 2017, ranking 40th in its ranking of the 100 most visited art museums in the world.

The artist personally took care of the museum project, so much so that inside the complex is his last room and his grave.

As the name suggests, the building that houses the museum was a theater, the Principal, built in 1849 by Josep Roca i Bros.

In 1939, during the Spanish Civil War, it was destroyed by the bombardments of the rebellious side, which left only the structure of what had been a beautiful neoclassical construction standing.

The transformation into a museum was carried out by Ramón Guardiola Rovira, an art-loving lawyer who became the mayor of Figueras in 1960. The mayor found it strange that Figueras had not done anything for his most illustrious son, and invited the artist to gift a painting to the local museum. Dalí responded that he was willing to donate an entire museum and suggested taking the city theater, then destroyed and abandoned, as the headquarters. This theater had a particular meaning for Dalí, as he had exhibited the first two works of his right there, in 1918 on the occasion of a painting exhibition.

On June 26, 1970, the Spanish government approved the project and work began on October 13. The rehabilitation project was the work of Joaquim de Ros i de Ramis and Alejandro Bonaterra, while the geodesic dome was designed by Emilio Pérez Piñero.

Later, in 1974, Dalí and Oscar Tusquets designed the Mae West room, while in 1995 new rooms were opened with a rehabilitation by Daniel Freixes, Vicente Miranda and Eulàlia González.

The official opening was on October 28, 1974, when the museum had not yet been finished. The museum was from the beginning to the liking of the public, so much so that it became the second Spanish museum by number of visitors, surpassed only by the Prado Museum in Madrid.

Below the main level of the building, is the crypt, a small room that houses his grave. Against his will (he wanted to be buried in Púbol castle), they buried him in the Dalí Theater-Museum. He was buried here on January 25, 1989, two days after the great artist's death.