The museum is showing works from the collection of Richard H. Mayer, a German who amassed the largest private collection of Dalí?s works ? some 1,500 drawings, graphic works and water colours ? in the region over a forty-year period. Most of the works to be shown in Szeged Dalí created as illustrations for well known works of literature.
The excitement building around the exhibition can be seen in much more than the posters of Dalí?s moustache which can be seen all around the city. At a restaurant near the museum, the proprietors are offering a special Dalí menu, and a nearby café is selling Dalí drinks, one with alcohol for adults, and the other without for children. The street in front of the museum will even be renamed Dalí Street during the exhibition.
Already, more people have ordered advance tickets for the exhibition than for the museum?s enormously successful Marc Chagall exhibition, and many more visitors will buy tickets at the door, according to the museum?s spokesman.
