---
node: spot_mexico_city_frida_kahlo_museum
type: spot
slug: frida_kahlo_museum
destination: dest_mexico_city
title: "Frida Kahlo Museum"
lead: "The Blue House in Coyoacán is where Frida Kahlo was born, lived with Diego Rivera and died in 1954. Rivera gave it to the nation on condition it opened as a museum, and it did in 1958."
published: 2026-08-12
updated: 2026-08-12
image_file: spot_mexico_city_frida_kahlo_museum.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013-12-22_Grabmal_Frida_Kahlo_Museum_Mexico_City_anagoria.JPG"
image_author: "Anagoria"
image_license: "CC BY 3.0"
---

## Overview

The house is kept as a house: her studio with the wheelchair at the easel, the bed with the mirror above it that she painted herself in, the kitchen with its clay pots. A sealed bathroom was opened in 2004 after fifty years and yielded her clothes, medicines and corsets, some now displayed in an outbuilding. Rivera and Kahlo also ran it as a political household — Trotsky stayed here in 1937, and the kitchen still carries their names in tiles.

## Highlights

Book online days ahead; entry is timed and the walk-up queue frequently sells out. Coyoacán around it is a colonial village absorbed by the city, worth an hour of its own for the market and the plaza. The nearby Diego Rivera Anahuacalli museum, built of volcanic stone to hold his pre-Columbian collection, is included in a combined ticket and almost empty.