By Madeleine Muzdakis on August 30, 2020

Imagine what it was like to paint in Frida’s studio!

A new immersive virtual tour by the Frida Kahlo Museum might be just the salve for travel lovers who miss visiting sites across the world. The museum occupies the famous Casa Azul (“Blue House”) in the Coyoacán borough of Mexico City. Kahlo was born in 1907 within the walls of the brilliantly colored home, the daughter of a Hungarian-German Jewish father and a mother from the region of Oaxaca. Kahlo died in the house as well, in 1954 at the young age of 47.

The museum (established in 1958), contains not only world-renowned art by Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera, but it also holds material evidence of the two legendary lives. Virtual visitors begin their tour in the lush outdoor courtyard of the house. A stepped pyramid opposite the viewer resembles a Mayan pyramid, and pre-contact art is distributed throughout the museum. Inside, viewers can slowly stroll through galleries with brilliant yellow floors. On the walls hang works by Kahlo and Rivera, including Frida and the Caesarian Operation (1931) and Long Live Life (1954).

After the galleries, visitors enter living spaces preserved just as the couple left them. The dining room includes the folk art that Kahlo collected, while the kitchen eschewed gas stoves for traditional firewood. Surrounded by grand windows, a large studio gives insight into Kahlo’s creative process.[…]

Watch “106 Recuerdos de Frida” or “106 Memories of Frida” by the Frida Kahlo Museum.

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