This is culture center that has many art galleries. Many of the art displays here is free to…read morepublic. This place is a school tool. During Day of the Dead season, there is more display in this area. The compound is big. It will take minimum 1 hours to visit. We start with art gallery. Then we take winding street to different buildings. We also saw some school children display with their famous hero. This display to remember their big contributions to society. The display are very nice.

A lovely experience. Many items in the home remain intact as well as furnishings where she spent so…read moremuch of her life and including the studio. They also preserved some of her clothing items which are on display. The unexpected tribute was a song by Patti Smith on the wall as you exit her room. Divine intervention. It's hard to imagine Frida's tenacity and determination to make her art and live life to the fullest. She is a lesson to us all. What a triumph. A must see if you go to Mexico City.

(Review based on 3.5 stars)…read more I am so glad that I had done my research about visiting Museo Frida Kahlo prior to coming because you must purchase your tickets online in advance (one to two weeks at least but it is better to purchase earlier if you are able). You will not be able to purchase the day before or the day of online because those tickets would have already sold out. And just as everyone has said, this museum does not sell any tickets at the door. Please note that you will be purchasing timed tickets and you have a short 15 minute window to arrive or you miss your time slot. But if you are after the 15 minute grace period, staff will just put you in the next time slot. I think I am in the minority here with my overall experience of the Museo Frida Kahlo in which I did not like it as much as I had expected. The home and grounds itself is beautiful and I just as I would have imagined visiting an artist's home, it was beautifully and tastefully decorated/ displayed. But placement of items and information boards were not well spread out and so it would bottleneck and get crowded in places. Also people would get really close to me and rub against me or my small purse, which I really was not a fan of (I really value my personal space). Frida Kahlo did live quite a tragic life and she truly was a resilient woman who could have spiraled downward but instead, she channeled her energy into art. But I will say it was rather disappointing that you do not learn much about her life in this museum and would learn more with your own reading online (from a credible source) or from school. In Frida Kahlo's home, I did love the kitchen the most. I loved how it was decorated with these little tiny cups to create a design on the wall and also to spell out both Frida and Diego's name. A building outside of her home is where there is a display of her clothes was actually what I enjoyed the most of this museum. I also preferred the restrooms on this side over the other restrooms closes to the exit of her home. Our visit was fine and am glad I was able to come. But I don't know if I would necessary consider this a must visit if you are visiting Mexico City. It is nice that your purchase of this museum also includes admission to Anahuacalli Museum, Diego's museum but it focuses on his sculptures and not his murals that you may know him more of. And also those tickets for his museum expire in one year. Lastly, after visiting here, consider walking to Mercado Coyoacán, which is about a 10 minute easy walk if you want to grab lunch and do a little browsing and shopping.

Imagining Trotsky's life in Mexico built such a mix of feelings…read more Seeing how the home had to be secured, guard towers, higher walls, secure interior doors, to protect him from Stalin surprised me, and yet, he had an office full of books and papers where he received guests and wrote. He actively gardened and raised animals. Learning about the way his family was hunted down and killed (around the world) was terrifying. It gave me an increasingly sobered view of current Russian politics, if only from a historic mindset. In addition to the home and history on Trotsky, there is a one room art gallery that hosts different exhibits. The exhibit when I visited was excellent covering a large range of work by Algerian artist Imene Khelifi.

Small but interesting…read more This house-turned-museum is only three blocks from Frida Kahlo's house-turned-museum and only costs a few American dollars.  There is a one room rotating art gallery here, alongside the entire house that has become a museum.  The interpretative panels along the self guided walking tour are in Spanish and passable English.  The very large interpretive panel explaining Trotsky's influence and the course of the Russian / Soviet Revolution across the 1900s was only available in Spanish, but seemed fairly comprehensive.  It's a worthwhile stop if you are in Coyoacan!