MEXICO
Central Region
Ciudad de México
COYOACÁN
The "Taco's & Toucan's" Trip
Museo Frida Kahlo
Friday March 29th, 2019
We arrived at the world renowned Museo Frida Kahlo (Frida Kahlo Museum) in Coyoacán just after midday to find queues of people stretching literally and physically around the block. Fortunately for us gringos on the Amigo Tours daytrip, we only had to wait 15 minutes to get in.
I’d be the first to admit that when it comes to the arts, yogurt has got more culture to me and that Frida Kahlo de Rivera was more anonymous that wrong phone number to me, but I’m pleased to say that in the allotted hour we had in the museum, I learnt that in her 47 years, Frida contracted polio at birth, had a car accident causing debilitating chronic pain, joined the Communist Party, divorced her husband for snookering her sister ..... then remarried him, had her leg amputated, became addicted to pain killers and wasn't able to celebrate her 50th – all this is said to have drawn her to Mexican folk art and its elements of 'fantasy, naivety, and fascination with violence and death' - go figure.
