The Salvador Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Florida was founded by Eleanor and Reynolds Morse, passionate Dalí collectors and long friends of the artist. Their lifelong passion for collecting the art of Salvador Dalí saw the Morses eventually acquire some 96 Dalí oils, more than 100 watercolours and drawings, and over 1,300 graphics, sculptures, objets d'art, and photographs during the course of their forty-year friendship with the artist. When the Morses’ collection outgrew their ability to display it comprehensively in their home in Cleveland, Ohio, the couple opened the world’s first Salvador Dalí Museum in Beachwood, Ohio, in 1971. In 1982 the collection moved to Florida, where the Morses inaugurated a much enlarged Salvador Dalí Museum, in St Petersburg, near Tampa. Expanded twice more, in 1989 and 1995, the Salvador Dalí Museum has attracted millions of visitors to St Petersburg.