Frida Kahlo Museum, Artist residence museum in Coyoacán, Mexico.
The Frida Kahlo Museum is a historic residence with art collection in Coyoacán, a southern borough of Mexico City, also known as Casa Azul. The two-story building is organized around a central courtyard with tropical plants, with rooms displaying furniture from different periods and paintings on the walls.
The house was built in 1904 and belonged to the Kahlo family from that year. Frida Kahlo lived there most of her life, first with her family and later with Diego Rivera. After her death in 1954, Rivera began turning it into a museum, which opened in July 1958. Juan O'Gorman took part in the construction work and Carlos Pellicer designed the museography.
The name Casa Azul refers to the cobalt-blue walls of the house on the corner of Londres and Allende Streets. Inside, the kitchen and dining room keep their bright yellow tile floors and blue-and-yellow tiled counters, with earthenware pots and plates from Metepec, Oaxaca, Tlaquepaque and Guanajuato. Tiny pots on the walls spell out the names Frida and Diego beside a pair of doves tying a lovers' knot.
Tickets should be booked online in advance as visitor numbers are limited and access is only possible during set time windows. Wheelchair users can visit the ground floor, while the upper floor remains accessible via stairs.
Diego Rivera ordered that the bathrooms of the Casa Azul stay sealed for fifteen years after his death; the patron Dolores Olmedo extended the closure for as long as she lived. The objects he had stored there, known as the Tesoros de la Casa Azul, went on display only a century after Kahlo's birth and fifty years after Rivera's death.
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