🎨Mexico City: New museum opens for Frida Kahlo fans
The Museo Casa Kahlo in Mexico City is open now. Here's what to know about adding this new sight, the artist's birthplace, to your travel plans.
If you’re one of those visitors to Mexico City who can’t get enough of Frida Kahlo, there’s a new museum for you to explore.
The 🏠 Museo Casa Kahlo opened recently. It’s the place where Frida Kahlo was born, and it houses personal artifacts, her drafting table and paintbrushes, photographs and letters, dresses, jewelry, and more.
We haven’t had a chance to visit yet, but we’ll share our thoughts and tips once we’ve been.
You can buy tickets online for $270 MXN ($13.50 USD), with lower rates for seniors, children, and Mexican citizens. And at least for now, there are plenty of tickets available on short notice, unlike the popular Museo Frida Kahlo, which often sells out well in advance.
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🖼️Nearby: The famous Museo Frida Kahlo
If you have tickets to Museo Frida Kahlo, the new Museo Casa Kahlo is just a 6-minute walk away. So, with a bit of planning, you could visit both museums in the same day.
Keep in mind: Museo Frida Kahlo is closed on Mondays, and Museo Casa Kahlo is closed on Tuesdays.
The Museo Frida Kahlo, also called la Casa Azul, or the Blue House, contains art created by Kahlo and her husband, Diego Rivera, plus photos and other personal items from Kahlo’s life. It’s preserved almost exactly as it was when Kahlo died in and it remains much as it was when she passed away in 1954.
Museo Frida Kahlo is the most popular tourist attraction in Coyoacán, so be sure to book tickets in advance. You can’t walk up to the museum and expect to get in.
👩🏽🎨If you’re still fascinated by Frida
A 20-minute drive from the Museo Casa Kahlo brings you to the Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo in San Ángel. This space includes two separate houses for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, plus a shared studio space and photo lab.
This gem of a museum contains lots of artwork from Kahlo and Rivera, and it’s not clear to us why it doesn’t get nearly as much attention as the Museo Frida Kahlo. We’ve visited a couple of times and walked right in to get tickets.
We’re not sure what makes Frida Kahlo so fascinating, but we’ve fallen under her spell. We’re not what you would call art-museum people—we’ll hit the highlights, but we never plan our trips around art or artists.
And yet, Frida Kahlo’s magic draws us in somehow. We’re looking forward to visiting this new museum and seeing how it showcases her work, art, and life.
Frida was actually born in the Casa Azul. She only lived in the Casa Roja, the new museum, for a few months while the Casa Azul was being remodeled. Matilde, her mother, bought the Casa Roja in 1930.