Trained Museum docents provide over 1,700 tours of the Museum each year. These include tours adapted to the special needs and interests of a wide variety of visitors. Docent training is an intense four month program consisting of fifteen two-hour slide lectures, three written tests and a final mini-tour. A semi-annual docent refresher course is conducted to keep long-time docents current with changing interpretations of Dalí's art. In addition, special training is undertaken to prepare for all changing exhibits, including slide lectures, "Docent Notes," and gallery walkthroughs with the curator.

Organized by the Education Department, an ongoing series of lectures features scholars and specialists who speak on topics relating to Dalí, Surrealism and our changing exhibitions. These lectures compliment current exhibitions by providing in-depth information on the given subject. The Dalí Museum presents approximately seven lectures per year.

In order to foster interdisciplinary awareness, the Museum sponsors several film series and a film festival in conjunction with the Dalí collection and the temporary exhibits. The Dalí & Beyond Film Series features movies that share a common enthusiasm for fantasy, dreams, creativity and the imagination. These films typically show every other Thursday at 6:00 p.m. Please visit our event calendar for details.

In order to foster interdisciplinary creativity, the Museum hosts a music series and a music festival­-the EMIT Series of Experimental Music and the BONK Festival of New Music. These programs are held for the enrichment of the community and imply connections between the visual and musical arts. The programs compliment each other, with the EMIT Series presenting local and national musicians who perform avant-garde contemporary improvisational music while BONK features world premiers of irreverent experimental/post-modern, avant-garde and classical compositions by local and international composers. In addition, the Museum presents such events as the Irritable Tribe of Poets, focusing on collaborations of community poets and musicians.

The Dalívision Outreach programs consist of poster and PowerPoint lectures presented by Museum docents at the request of community and education groups. Often these programs are presented prior to a group tour to the Museum, but they may also be given independent of a visit. Some of the groups served include schools, senior groups, churches, and social and service clubs. These programs focus on the life and work of Salvador Dalí, and may feature specific topics such as his religious work, the art of his youth or a general overview of the collection with some background on museum history, present functions, programs and new building construction updates.

A monthly gallery tour program where Dalí Museum curators share their professional insight into aspects of the current exhibitions with museum visitors and the Dalí community. Sponsored by Starbucks Coffee Company. Please visit our event calendar for details.