Frida Kahlo Museum

 

Frida Kahlo Museum

The Frida Kahlo museum, also known as the Casa Azul (Blue House) museum, is located in Coyoacán, a Mexican city suburb. On July 30, 1958, the museum was opened to the public.


History
Diego Rivera, several times Frida Kahlo's husband, who had been widowed four years earlier, had wanted it to be a public access point, but died in 1957 before it could be realized. Rivera had left the "Casa Azul" to the Mexican people when he died, but only a year later, the government transformed it into the museum that houses the most important works of Kahlo, as well as works by Rivera, José Mara Velasco, Paul Klee, and some of their friends, including Marcel Duchamp and Yves Tanguy. Rivera devoted his final years to publishing his wife's work. "Frida is the first woman in the history of art to have faced with absolute and inexorable frankness, one could say in a ruthless but at the same time calm way, those issues that concern exclusively women," he said, full of admiration. Frida was born on July 6, 1907 in the "Casa Azul" of Coyoacán, Mexico, and moved there with Rivera when her parents died in 1940. Frida and Diego organised their studies and amassed pre-Columbian artefacts and ethnographic collections in the large house, which was surrounded by an electric blue and red stucco enclosure and walls of the same intense Mayan blue. Frida kept the monkeys, dogs, and parrots that appear in some of her paintings in her garden. They welcomed lifelong friends like American billionaire Nelson Rockefeller, one of their most ardent supporters, and the great Russian director Sergej jzentejn here. Today, in the house museum, there are also letters and writings of various international personalities who were friends of Frida and Diego, as well as everyday objects from the two artists' private lives that drew the attention of their contemporaries and contribute to the formation of their "myth" today. "
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WORKING HOURS AND LOCATION
Monday is a holiday.
10:00 a.m. on Tuesday – 6:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m. on Wednesday – 6:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m. Thursday through Sunday – 6:00 p.m.


Hours of operation:
10:00 a.m., September 15 – 2:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m. on December 24 and 31. – 2:00 p.m.

The following holidays are observed as closed:
1st of January
May 1
The 16th of September
13 and 25 December
Col. Del Carmen, Londres 247
Coyoacán, CDMX, 04100, Mexico

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