Frida Kahlo Museum (Casa Azul) Tickets

The house is painted an intense cobalt blue, and Frida Kahlo was born in it, grew up in it, painted in it and died in it. Casa Azul, in the Coyoacán district of Mexico City, was the family home, and today it is the Museo Frida Kahlo, kept close to how she left it in 1954. Her studio still holds the wheelchair pulled up to the easel, the four-poster bed still has a mirror fixed overhead, and the kitchen wall still spells out her and Diego's names in tiny clay mugs. About 750,000 people came through in 2024, which makes it one of the most visited house museums in the country and the reason its tickets are so hard to get.

What will you see inside Casa Azul?

The draw is the house itself, lived in rather than staged: Frida's day bed and easel, the four-poster with its canopy mirror, the bright tiled kitchen, her Tehuana dresses and painted plaster corsets, and the green garden with its small stone pyramid.

Start in her studio. The wheelchair sits where she worked, the easel and brushes are laid out, and above the bed nearby hangs the mirror she used to paint self-portraits while she was confined to it. A few of her own paintings hang in the ground-floor rooms, along with works by Diego Rivera and pieces from the couple's collection, so you read the art against the rooms it came from.

The clothing rooms are the quiet surprise. Her Tehuana dresses, rebozos and jewellery are displayed alongside the plaster body casts she decorated during the long stretches spent recovering from her injuries. Then the kitchen, tiled in yellow and blue, with the small mugs on the wall arranged to read her and Diego's names.

Outside, the courtyard garden wraps around a low stepped pyramid Diego built to show pre-Hispanic figures, and in the bedroom a pre-Columbian urn holds Frida's ashes. It is a small house, and almost none of it is filler.

How do Frida Kahlo Museum tickets work?

There is one ticket, it is timed, and it is sold online before you arrive: there is no walk-up box office at the door. Slots regularly sell out four to six weeks ahead, so this is a book-early-or-miss-it museum. The same ticket also gets you into Diego Rivera's Anahuacalli museum across the city at no extra cost, and it comes with a digital guide.

For context on the standard fare, the museum's official admission is about 320 MXN (roughly $16) for foreign adults, with a lower rate near 160 MXN for Mexican nationals who show ID. Entry runs in fixed time slots, and because demand is high, same-day third-party resellers often cancel or overcharge. A slot booked ahead through the panel above is the reliable route, and it bundles the timed Casa Azul entry, the Anahuacalli ticket and the digital guide together.

One thing to know: there is no Mexico City museum pass that covers Casa Azul. It is not sold as part of any all-in-one card, and the only way in is a timed ticket bought in advance. If your dates are firm, book them the moment you know them rather than hoping for a gap.

When is it open and how long do you need?

Casa Azul is closed on Mondays and open Tuesday to Sunday, and your visit is tied to the time printed on your ticket. Most people spend about an hour to ninety minutes inside, since the house is compact and the rooms are small.

Those small rooms bunch up fast when a slot fills, so the earliest weekday entries are the calmest, and weekend afternoons the busiest. Leave a little extra beyond the house itself for the garden, the shop and the short queue where staff scan tickets on arrival.

How do you get to Coyoacán and Casa Azul?

The museum is at Londres 247 in Coyoacán, a leafy colonial district in the south of the city. No Metro station sits right outside; the nearest, Coyoacán on Line 3, is a fifteen-to-twenty-minute walk, so a lot of visitors take a taxi or rideshare straight to the door.

Coyoacán rewards a half-day around the visit. The cobbled streets lead to a pair of central plazas, a coyote fountain and a covered market known for its tostadas, all within a short walk of the house. Come early for your slot, then let the neighborhood fill the rest of the morning.

There is also a newer stop nearby. Museo Casa Kahlo, the so-called Casa Roja, opened in late 2025 a few minutes away and shows more of Frida's wardrobe and personal effects, so it works as a companion visit for anyone who wants a deeper look at her life.

What pairs with the Frida Kahlo Museum nearby?

Two of Frida and Diego's other homes are within reach, and one of them is already on your ticket.

Your Casa Azul ticket already covers Museo Anahuacalli, Diego Rivera's temple of dark volcanic stone in southern Coyoacan built for his pre-Hispanic collection, so it costs nothing extra to add. Across the city in San Angel, the Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo is the pair of modernist studio-houses where the couple lived and worked.

For more of their paintings under one roof, the reopened Museo Dolores Olmedo out in Xochimilco holds over a hundred works by the two artists, set in a colonial hacienda with peacocks and hairless xoloitzcuintle dogs on the lawns.

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