A Brand-New Frida Kahlo Museum Is Coming To Mexico City

Set inside Casa Roja in Mexico City’s Coyoacán area, this forthcoming museum offers an intimate look into Frida Kahlo’s early life and family world, opening to the public for the first time on September 27. Housed in a property that once belonged to her parents and later her younger sister Cristina, and which has stayed in the family for decades, it will showcase Kahlo’s dolls, clothing, jewellery, personal letters, photographs and many other objects and documents to give visitors an up-close and personal insight into the artist’s childhood. The photography of her father, Guillermo Kahlo, will also be on display, and there will be space for rotating exhibitions featuring artwork by Mexican, Latin American and women artists. Led by Adán García Fajardo, the Museum of Memory and Tolerance’s current academic director, and overseen by the New York-based Fundación Kahlo, the museum is described by Kahlo’s grandniece Mara Romeo Kahlo as the real beginning of Frida’s legacy, rooted in the land, homes and culture that shaped her. - Liv Kelly