Museo Frida Kahlo
The Blue House: Frida Kahlo’s former home, studio and a vivid portrait of her life.
La Casa Azul, the Blue House, is the cobalt-walled home in Coyoacán where Frida Kahlo spent most of her life. She grew up there with her family and later lived there with Diego Rivera. Many of her best-known paintings were made inside its walls, and a plaque in the courtyard records that Frida and Diego lived in the house from 1929 to 1954.
Rivera and Kahlo wanted the house to belong to the Mexican people. After Frida died in 1954, Rivera placed it in a trust run by the Banco de México, and it opened as a museum in July 1958. The poet Carlos Pellicer arranged the first display and kept the rooms looking as they had in the couple's time. The building itself shows its history: a 1904 house around a courtyard, remodelled in the 1940s with a volcanic-stone wing designed by Juan O'Gorman.
Visitors walk through Frida's studio, with the easel given to her by Nelson Rockefeller, her bedroom with its mirrored bed, the traditional Mexican kitchen and the leafy gardens. The collection also covers her personal life: corsets, wheelchairs, medicines, clothing, votive paintings, pre-Hispanic sculpture, photographs and papers. The current permanent display, 'Un lugar lleno de lugares: la Casa Azul', opened in 2023 and shows more than 200 works and personal objects.
Highlights
- Frida Kahlo's studio, with the easel Nelson Rockefeller gave her and her wheelchair
- The artist's bedroom with its canopy bed and overhead mirror
- The courtyard gardens with the plaque 'Frida y Diego vivieron en esta casa 1929–1954'
- Her wardrobe of Tehuana dresses, corsets and prosthetics, rediscovered in the house in 2004
- Permanent display 'Un lugar lleno de lugares: la Casa Azul' (since 2023), with 200+ works and objects
![[King Thibaw Min's Throne Room - Mandalay]title QS:P1476,en:"[King Thibaw Min's Throne Room - Mandalay]"label QS:Len,"[King Thibaw Min's Throne Room - Mandalay]"](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Felice_Beato_%28British%2C_born_Italy_-_%28King_Thibaw_Min%27s_Throne_Room_-_Mandalay%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/500px-Felice_Beato_%28British%2C_born_Italy_-_%28King_Thibaw_Min%27s_Throne_Room_-_Mandalay%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
