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 building was constructed in the 19th century and served as the residence for the artist couple starting in 1929. After the painter's death in 1954, her widower opened the rooms as a public memorial four years later.
The name Casa Azul comes from the cobalt blue exterior walls that have carried this color for generations and held a protective function in the region. The walls of the courtyard and garden are decorated with folk ceramic ornaments and pre-Columbian figures that shaped the artist's daily life.
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.
The garden behind the house contains a stepped pyramid that the painter's partner built to display archaeological finds. In one of the bedrooms stands the narrow bed with a mirror attached above the headboard that served as a painting surface during long recovery periods.
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