Frida Kahlo Museum Mexico City: Casa Azul & Anahuacalli Access

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1/13

Duration2h–3h

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Two Museums, One Ticket: Inside Frida's Blue House & Rivera's Art City

You get entry to both Casa Azul and the Anahuacalli Museum in one ticket. Walk through Frida's actual home, see her self-portraits and personal objects, then spend time in Rivera's art-filled pyramid museum. Tickets arrive by email the day before your visit, so you skip the box office line entirely.

2h–3h

Step-by-step itinerary

Visit Frida Kahlo and Anahuacalli Museums

Enter Frida Kahlo Museum
Explore Frida Kahlo's artworks and belongings
Visit Anahuacalli Museum
See Diego Rivera's art collection

The Experience

Most visitors to Mexico City hunt for Frida Kahlo's most famous paintings — "The Two Fridas," "Henry Ford Hospital" — and then realize they're not here. They're in the Dolores Olmedo Museum, which is closed indefinitely. So you come to Casa Azul instead, the Blue House where she actually lived, suffered, created and died, and you find something better: the work nobody else gets to see. Your ticket includes both the Frida Kahlo Museum and the Anahuacalli Museum, Diego Rivera's City of the Arts, designed as a total environment. It's two separate experiences in one visit.

The Blue House itself is the first thing that hits you. The walls are that specific shade of blue — not quite turquoise, not quite cobalt — and the rooms are small, intimate, crowded with her life. You'll see the first self-portraits, unfinished canvases, her books with notes in the margins, her dresses hung in the closet. Photographs line the walls. Her wheelchair sits in one corner. The museum doesn't stage this as a narrative; it feels more like walking through someone's actual home, which it was. Check-in time can shift between 15 and 45 minutes without notice, so arrive with a buffer and don't plan something tight afterward.

After Casa Azul, the Anahuacalli Museum is a different kind of immersion. Rivera built it as a piece of art itself — a pyramid-shaped structure filled with his personal collection of Mesoamerican sculpture and artifacts. The building is the exhibition. It's quieter than the Blue House, less crowded, and the scale of the pre-Columbian pieces changes how you think about Rivera's own work. Both museums sit in the same neighborhood, Coyoacán, so you can walk between them or take a short taxi ride.

One practical thing: your tickets arrive by email 24 hours before your reservation time, not at a box office. If you want to photograph inside, that's an extra 30 pesos at the museum itself — it's not included with entry. Backpacks and smaller bags can be stored in the cloakroom, but large suitcases aren't accepted. Strollers have a designated parking area outside the house. Some areas of Casa Azul are wheelchair accessible, though not every room in the original structure is reachable.

What’s included

Your ticket includes entry to the Frida Kahlo Museum (Casa Azul) and the Anahuacalli Museum.
You'll have access to Frida's self-portraits, unfinished works, photographs, personal belongings, books and her unique dress collection, plus Diego Rivera's Mesoamerican art collection housed in the Anahuacalli pyramid.
Storage is available for backpacks and smaller bags.
Photography permission is not included but can be purchased separately at the museum.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by Agave Tours

Is this one for you?Right for anyone who wants to see where Frida lived and worked without arranging separate tickets to two museums — one entry covers both, and the email confirmation means you skip the box office entirely.