Museo Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo House Museum is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The museum houses several of the artist’s paintings, personal belongings, books, and a personal collection of pre-Columbian statues. The house is called “Blue,” or “Azure,” based on the coloring of the exterior and interior walls.”
Highlights
The Frida Kahlo House Museum remains exactly as Frida Kahlo, her husband Diego Rivera and their many friends knew it. Its walls inside and out are painted with different colors, everywhere you can come across decorations made of ceramics, portraits of the leaders of the world proletariat and many other things that, in the opinion of most people, can not be near each other, but nevertheless it is thanks to this creative mess and forms a wonderful atmosphere of this house.
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There are also Frida Kahlo’s ashes in an urn in the shape of the artist’s face standing by her bed.
.The museum also houses a unique collection of pre-Columbian statues and paintings of the artist – mostly self-portraits, because she spent most of her life in bed. And, according to the stories of some tourists, in this house you can come across a lot of very strange things, such as an amulet (a jar with embryos), which is supposed to scare away any uninvited guests.
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It won’t take you long to visit the museum, as it is quite small.
History
This house has belonged to the Kahlo family since 1904. Frida Kahlo was born here on July 6, 1907 and died here on July 13, 1954. Since 1955, the house has been converted into the Frida Kahlo Museum.
>Frida lived in this house intermittently with her husband Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Between 1937 and 1939, Lev Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova lived there, who moved to a house on a neighboring street in April 1939 (now the Trotsky House Museum).
.How to get there
The Frida Kahlo Museum is located in the southwestern suburbs of Mexico City, in the Coyoacán neighborhood, at the corner of Londres Street and Allende Street (Londres 247, Mexico City). You can get to the museum by metro: the stations of line 3 are Coyocan or Viveros. From the metro you can take a bus, cab or walk (15-20 minute walk in total). The museum stands out with its blue color.
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