(25 Sep 2025)
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Mexico City, Mexico – 10 September 2025
1. Frida Kahlo’s portrait in a decorative frame at the new museum in Mexico City
2. Various of embroidered garments on display at the new museum
3. Dining room exhibit in the new Kahlo House Museum
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Adriana Miranda, museum curator
"Visitors who come to the museum will find untold stories. They are the relationships Frida has her parents, her sisters, her family. They are those anecdotes that we all have in our homes with our families. You will find all of this in this new museum."
5. Vintage photograph of Frida and her younger sister Cristina
6. Kahlo’s butterfly collection displayed in her secret basement
7. Various of Kahlo’s art supplies in secret basement
8. Various of Kahlo’s artworks in secret basement
9. SOUNDBITE (English): Adán García Fajardo, museum director
"She went beneath the house to the basement and that’s where she wrote and where she created some of the things and where she listened to music and where she could be herself. So this place is open to the public for the first time."
10. Floral headpiece on display
11. Frida’s portrait displayed at the new museum
12. Museum staff carefully hanging a framed artwork of poppies
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mara Romeo Kahlo, Frida’s grand-niece:
"What I want the audience to find is the human Frida, Aunt Frida, the Frida they don’t know because usually, well, you know her as a painter, as a strong, fighting woman. But here, they will find that Frida who laughed, who cried, who laughed, who told jokes, the sister Frida, the aunt Frida."
14. Frida’s iconic pre-Hispanic necklace
15. Various of traditional Mexican pottery in kitchen
24. Various of art work in kitchen
STORYLINE:
Clothes belonging to a long-dead relative.
They’re the kind of things found in homes around the world.
But Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s family once lived here, and these are their treasured possessions.
The newly inaugurated Kahlo House Museum, also known as the Red House, was once the family home of Kahlo, where her parents lived and she used to visit when she wanted to have a ‘room of one’s own.’
The property is a few blocks from the famous Blue House, Kahlo’s childhood home in Mexico City’s southern neighborhood of Coyoacán, where Kahlo later lived with her husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera after they married.
The Red House, which became a ‘refuge’ for the artist, was later passed down through the family, first to Cristina – Kahlo’s younger sister- then her daughter, Isolda Pinedo Kahlo, and finally to Mara Romeo Kahlo, the founder of the Kahlo House Museum.
This old Mexican house, which features a large courtyard, holds numerous artifacts belonging to the painter and her family, as well as an extensive collection of letters and photographs from the family album.
“Visitors who come to the museum will find untold stories,” says Adriana Miranda, the museum curator. “They are those anecdotes that we all have in our homes with our families, those anecdotes of affection, those family anecdotes. You will find all of this in this new museum.”
A standout piece in the collection is a pre-Hispanic necklace that Kahlo often wore and that appears in many photographs. Some of her clothing, including traditional indigenous blouses and skirts, will also be on display to the public for the first time.
The Kahlo House Museum opened September 25 with the mission of sharing Frida Kahlo’s intimate and family life beyond her public persona.
Kahlo’s artwork remains highly sought after.
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