Three Historic Museums in Mexico City: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky Sites
Three museums in Mexico City's Coyoacán neighborhood preserve the legacies of artist Frida Kahlo, muralist Diego Rivera, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky. The Casa Azul, Kahlo's former home built in 1904, displays personal artifacts and opened as a museum in 1958 after her death. Diego Rivera's Anahuacalli Museum, constructed beginning in 1941, houses his collection of over 45,000 pre-Columbian artifacts and opened in 1964. The Leon Trotsky Museum, his residence during exile from 1937 until his assassination in 1940, documents his final years. These sites are interconnected through the personal and political relationships among the figures, including Kahlo's marriage to Rivera in 1929 and their brief harboring of Trotsky.
Key facts
- Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul museum opened in 1958 in her former home in Coyoacán, Mexico City.
- Diego Rivera began building the Anahuacalli Museum in 1941 to house his pre-Columbian art collection.
- Leon Trotsky lived in exile in Mexico City from 1937 until his assassination in 1940.
- Kahlo and Rivera married in 1929 and had a tumultuous relationship marked by infidelities.
- Trotsky briefly lived at the Casa Azul in 1937 after Rivera helped secure his asylum in Mexico.
Entities
Artists
Institutions
- Casa Azul (Museo Frida Kahlo)
- Anahuacalli Museum
- Leon Trotsky Museum
Locations
- Mexico City
- Coyoacán
- Xochimilco district