The Blue House: the museum that keeps the most intimate side of Frida Kahlo

However, artistic pieces are not the main attraction of the Blue House, but each of the personal and everyday objects that belonged so much to Frida Kahlo and Diego Riveraauthentic relics that account for their life and feelings from a perspective as intimate and as any of his works.

Diego Rivera's room is maintained as the muralist left it before he died

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The room and objects of Frida Kahlo in the blue house

In the Blue House it is possible to visit the room and the Frida study and contemplate them just as he left them before he died. His beds, where he spent moments of pain, despair and inspiration that led to the canvas, the orthopedic devices that accompanied him from the accident and for the rest of his life and even the typical costumes, the jewelry and the shoes he used to use in the day to day.

Another special space of the Blue House is the kitchen, where it highlights the taste of Diego and Frida Both for Mexican popular art, as well as the typical design, embodied in utensils such as pots and clay vessels, palm chairs and mosaics that account for the couple's style.

The patio is a sign of the essence that the artist's couple was responsible for printing in Every corner of the blue house. In it, a minimum part of the collection of pre -Hispanic pieces that Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo stored throughout their lives, in addition to cactus, pots, a source and all kinds of plants that were responsible for taking care of taking care of with the intention of maintaining a Mexican style.

Frida Kahlo's chair, some devices and her beds are the main attraction of the blue house

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The Blue House becomes the Frida Kahlo Museum

In 1958, four years after Frida Kahlo's death And one after Diego Rivera's death, the Blue House opened its doors as a museum from the management of Dolores Olmedo, who on the express orders of the Mexican muralist, who wanted to convert the space in which they lived in a legacy for all Mexicans, took care of