| Saint Petersburg, Florida |
Situated on the eastern edge of the Pinellas Peninsula, ST PETERSBURG
may be only twenty miles from Tampa, but location is about the only thing
these cities share. Declared the healthiest place in the US in 1885, it
wasted no time in wooing the recuperating and the retired, at one point
putting five thousand green benches on its streets to take the weight off
elderly legs. Although it remains a mecca for the retired, St Petersburg
has worked hard to attract young blood. In addition to rejuvenating the
pier, which now offers something for every age, its diverse selection of
museums and plethora of art galleries has contributed to its emergence as
one of Florida's richest cultural cities. Most remarkable of all, the town has
acquired a major collection of works by Salvador Dali – making St
Petersburg a good option if you are looking for a break from the beaches
nine miles west on the Gulf Coast.
may be only twenty miles from Tampa, but location is about the only thing
these cities share. Declared the healthiest place in the US in 1885, it
wasted no time in wooing the recuperating and the retired, at one point
putting five thousand green benches on its streets to take the weight off
elderly legs. Although it remains a mecca for the retired, St Petersburg
has worked hard to attract young blood. In addition to rejuvenating the
pier, which now offers something for every age, its diverse selection of
museums and plethora of art galleries has contributed to its emergence as
one of Florida's richest cultural cities. Most remarkable of all, the town has
acquired a major collection of works by Salvador Dali – making St
Petersburg a good option if you are looking for a break from the beaches
nine miles west on the Gulf Coast.
The Salvador Dali Museum, 1000 S 3rd St (Mon–Sat 9.30am–5.30pm, Sun noon–
5.30pm; $8; tel 727/822-6270; www.salvadordalimuseum.org), stores more than a
thousand paintings from the collection of a Cleveland industrialist, A. Reynolds
Morse, who struck up a friendship with the artist in the 1940s. Free tours begin
whenever sufficient people gather, and trace a chronological path around the
works, from the artist's early experiments with Impressionism and Cubism to the
seminal Surrealist canvas Persistence of Memory.
Once you've done Dali, the quarter-mile-long pier, jutting from the end of Second
Avenue N, is the town's central focus. It often hosts browsable arts and crafts
exhibitions, and the inverted-pyramid-like building at its head holds five stories of
restaurants, shops and fast-food counters. The pier is also home to Great
Explorations (Mon–Sat 10am–8pm, Sun 11am–6pm; $4), a hands-on science
museum for all ages. At the foot of the pier, the Museum of History (Mon–Sat
10am–5pm, Sun 1–5pm; $5) modestly recounts St Petersburg's early twentieth-
century heyday as a winter resort. Nearby, the Museum of Fine Arts, 255 Beach
Drive NE (Tues–Sat 10am–5pm, Sun 1–5pm; $6, free on Sun), holds a superlative
collection ranging from pre-Columbian art through Asian and African to European
Old Masters. The Florida International Museum, half a mile east of the pier at 100
2nd St (daily during exhibition periods 9am–6pm; $14.50; reserve at 1-800/777-
9882, www.floridamuseum.org), occupies an entire block and, for about a year at
a time, displays exhibitions from renowned museums all over the world.
5.30pm; $8; tel 727/822-6270; www.salvadordalimuseum.org), stores more than a
thousand paintings from the collection of a Cleveland industrialist, A. Reynolds
Morse, who struck up a friendship with the artist in the 1940s. Free tours begin
whenever sufficient people gather, and trace a chronological path around the
works, from the artist's early experiments with Impressionism and Cubism to the
seminal Surrealist canvas Persistence of Memory.
Once you've done Dali, the quarter-mile-long pier, jutting from the end of Second
Avenue N, is the town's central focus. It often hosts browsable arts and crafts
exhibitions, and the inverted-pyramid-like building at its head holds five stories of
restaurants, shops and fast-food counters. The pier is also home to Great
Explorations (Mon–Sat 10am–8pm, Sun 11am–6pm; $4), a hands-on science
museum for all ages. At the foot of the pier, the Museum of History (Mon–Sat
10am–5pm, Sun 1–5pm; $5) modestly recounts St Petersburg's early twentieth-
century heyday as a winter resort. Nearby, the Museum of Fine Arts, 255 Beach
Drive NE (Tues–Sat 10am–5pm, Sun 1–5pm; $6, free on Sun), holds a superlative
collection ranging from pre-Columbian art through Asian and African to European
Old Masters. The Florida International Museum, half a mile east of the pier at 100
2nd St (daily during exhibition periods 9am–6pm; $14.50; reserve at 1-800/777-
9882, www.floridamuseum.org), occupies an entire block and, for about a year at
a time, displays exhibitions from renowned museums all over the world.
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