The Espace Dali-Montmartre was set up by the Stratton Foundation, a non profit-making association operating from Lichtenstein whose main aim is to promote Art.
The Stratton Foundation owns and holds on deposit the largest collection of sculptures by Salvador Dali. After displaying the works in museums throughout the world, the Foundation decided, in 1991, to open a permanent exhibition in honour of Salvador Dali and it selected Paris as its location.

This is the first museum in France to be devoted to works by the great Catalan artist. The 1000 sqm of Surrealist exhibition space are situated behind the famous, picturesque Place du Tertre in Montmartre. The museum is entirely devoted to one of the 20th century's most fascinating artists, and is yet another jewel in the capital's crown of museums.

The collection of 330 works, some of them displayed for the first time in France by the Stratton Foundation, reveal the many facets of this universal genius.

There are original, artistically daring sculptures (Spatial Elephant, Vision of the Angel, Soft Watches, Retrospective Bust of a Woman, Unicorn, Hallucinogenic Toreador, Woman in Flames, Anthropomorphic Cabinet etc.)

Some sumptuous illustrations for Ovid's Art of Love, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Rabelais' Gargantua, La Fontaine's Fables, the Decameron, the Marquis de Sade, Casanova, Moses and Monotheism.

Amazing anamorphoses to be deciphered include Lily, Matthew, Harlequin with Cylindrical Mirrors etc. All of these works were created between 1934 and 1984.