Mexico City · Coyoacán
Museo Frida Kahlo
The blue house where she was born, lived, painted and died
The studio upstairs, with the easel, the wheelchair and the mirror above the bed
The Casa Azul was built by her father, she was born in it in 1907, lived there with Diego Rivera for years and died there in 1954. Rivera turned it into a museum and it opened in 1958 with the rooms largely as they were, including the kitchen, the garden and the studio with her easel still facing the window.
It holds relatively few major paintings; what it holds is a life, arranged with a directness that makes it the most affecting house museum in the Americas. Her ashes are in a pre-Columbian urn in the bedroom.
The detail
Good to know
- House
- Casa Azul, built by her father
- Museum since
- 1958
- Entry
- Timed tickets, book online days ahead
- District
- Coyoacán, cobbled and colonial
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