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.