Museo Dolores Olmedo

Dolores Olmedo Museum

Entrance of the Museo Dolores Olmedo, 2011
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Location	Mexico City
Coordinates	19°15′58″N 99°07′34″W

Altar to Dolores Olmedo at the Dolores Olmedo Museum for Day of the Dead.

Statue of Dolores Olmedo

The Museo Dolores Olmedo (or the Dolores Olmedo Museum) is an art museum in Xochimilco, Mexico City, based on the collection of the Mexican businesswoman Dolores Olmedo.

History

In 1962, Dolores Olmedo acquired a property at La Noria, Xochimilco in southern Mexico City, which she would later convert into the museum named after herself in 1994. Donating her entire collection of art including pre-Hispanic, colonial, folk, modern and contemporary art, the Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum hosts the largest collection of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Angelina Beloff artworks. Upon Olmedo's death in 2002, she left funds for the upkeep of the museum.

Collections

The five-building complex contains up to 170 paintings, including 145 by Diego Rivera, 25 by his wife Frida Kahlo, some of their scripts and drawings, nearly 6,000 pre-Hispanic figurines and sculptures, and diverse living animals such as geese, ducks, six Xoloitzcuintles, and Indian peafowls kept in the museum's gardens.

Renovations

In 2020, the museum closed for renovations and reopened in 2026. Private rooms where Olmedo kept her personal collection of ivory, china and artwork by artists she nurtured were opened to the public and there is a permanent exhibition of works by Russian-Mexican artist Angelina Beloff, who was Diego Rivera's first wife.

Gallery

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  Traditional crafts at the museum
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  Traditional crafts exhibition
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  Building housing Frida Kahlo exhibition
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  Old hermitage building on museum grounds

External links

• Museo Dolores Olmedo website
• Virtual tour of the Museo Dolores Olmedo provided by Google Arts & Culture
• Media related to Museo Dolores Olmedo at Wikimedia Commons