La Casa Azul (2)


Source: WTL photograph taken at the Casa Azul in Coyoacán.
Comments: Here we see the entrance to the house and museum. After Frida Kahlo's death in 1954, her house began to be changed into a museum, which houses some of her paintings and her collection of indigenous pre-contact artifacts. From her birth in 1907 until the 1940s Coyoacán was a very poor neighborhood. During the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), revolutionaries fought in the streets around this house, and on several occasions guerrilleros jumped over the garden's walls into the backyard (on the right). Her mother supported the revolutionaries and gave them food to eat.