Virtually visit the Blue House of Frida Kahlo

The museum of the Mexican painter opens its doors during the pandemic so that fans of the artist from all over the world can visit her famous Casa Azul.

Feet... why do I need them if I have wings to fly?, Frida Kahlo asked herself. She did so from her eternal bed, in the same place where she was born in 1907 to a Jewish father (of Hungarian-German descent) and a mother from Oaxaca and in the same place where she died at the age of 47 and the ashes of her body were scattered throughout its corners. We are referring to the Casa Azul, which became her personal museum in 1958, and which is located in the Coyoacán district of Mexico City.

A must-see for fans of the Mexican painter

Now, thanks to the Internet, you no longer have to travel there to be able to walk around its mythical and colorful courtyard, with its recognizable reddish stepped pyramid - similar to those of the Mayan culture -, the pieces of pre-Hispanic art scattered around its walls or, of course, the works of art by both the surrealist painter (there you can find the famous Frida and the Caesarean , which is unfinished, or the watermelons from Viva la vida ) and her husband, Diego Rivera.

A work done during the pandemic

Although the idea had been floating around in the museum's curators' heads for some time, the pandemic has accelerated it, making possible a journey inside the artist's house down to the smallest detail, from the rooms where Leon Trotsky was welcomed (both in the couple were great supporters of the Mexican Communist Party and the Soviet Union) to the dining room with its famous yellow floors, which includes the folk art they stored during their lives, or the kitchen, although in this one they replaced the gas stoves with wood-burning ones.