Frida Kahlo Museum (Casa Azul)

Museo Frida Kahlo – La Casa Azul

The cobalt-blue house where Frida Kahlo was born, lived and died, with her studio, hospital bed, four-poster bed and Tehuana dresses. It's the Coyoacán museum most worth queuing for.

La Casa Azul (the Blue House) is at 247 Londres Street in the Coyoacán district of southern Mexico City. It was the home where painter Frida Kahlo was born in 1907, lived with Diego Rivera and died in 1954. In 1958, Rivera donated it to become a museum. The whole house is painted saturated cobalt blue and surrounds a courtyard planted with cacti and tropical plants, preserved as it once was. On the ground floor, the galleries display Frida's paintings, including 'Viva la Vida' with its watermelons, 'My Family' and the unfinished portrait of Stalin, along with Rivera's works and the pre-Columbian pottery and folk art collected by the couple. The kitchen is covered in yellow and blue tiles, with the names of the two spelled out in small clay pots. Upstairs are Frida's studio, with an easel and paints in front of her wheelchair, and her bedroom. The bed used during the day has a mirror above it, which she used for self-portraits while bedridden. The bed used at night has her ashes urn and death mask at the headboard. The annex gallery 'Appearances Can Deceive' displays her Tehuana dresses, corsets, prosthetic legs and plaster body casts painted with patterns. Admission is about 320 pesos for adults (350 on weekends, the foreigner price), and a photography permit costs an extra 30 pesos. Tickets must be booked by time slot on the official website, museofridakahlo.org.mx. In peak season they sell out 3–4 weeks in advance, and there are almost no tickets at the door. The combined ticket includes the nearby Anahuacalli Museum, a volcanic-stone 'temple' designed by Rivera that houses his pre-Columbian collection. A visit takes about 1–1.5 hours. Nearby, you can walk 10 minutes to the Trotsky House Museum, where Trotsky was assassinated in 1940 (about 70 pesos), the Coyoacán central plaza (Jardín Centenario, with its coyote fountain and the Church of San Juan Bautista), the Coyoacán market (try tostadas) and the weekend crafts market. Getting there: Metro Line 3 to Coyoacán station, then a 20-minute walk, or take an Uber. Note: the museum is closed on Mondays. Entry queues run 15–30 minutes per time slot. Backpacks are not allowed inside, but there is storage. The courtyard café is a good place to rest.

Frida Kahlo Museum (Casa Azul)

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