The Frida Kahlo Museum is located on Fifth Avenue in Playa del Carmen ‒it couldn't be anywhere else in the Riviera Maya‒. This site dedicated to the beloved Mexican artist is both a museum and a restaurant.
Visiting the Frida Kahlo Museum in Playa del Carmen is a joint sensory experience that will help you discover the passions and torments of this artist. So that you will be able to understand his life for a moment. For that purpose, museography uses different tools: touch screens, audio, video mapping, object boxes, art installations, infographics, as well as samples, of course, of her main paintings.
The Frida Kahlo Riviera Maya Museum is divided into nine rooms. The first begins with a timeline where his days are mixed with historical events in Mexico. Some headphones in the adjoining room are in charge of recreating the tram accident that in 1925 devastated her body, condemning her to despondency ever since.
Later, a video mapping follows where bed and loneliness are the protagonists. A convalescing artist begins to paint to save herself, and the viewer attends that incipient pictorial universe, under the newly discovered protection that colors brought with them.
The love relationship he had with Diego Rivera is revealed in a separate space. It is enough to look at the facsimiles of the letters that she dedicated to him with her singular style, to understand that the affection felt by the muralist was not a reason for peace in her life either.
Also, there is another room dedicated entirely to her brushstrokes: reproductions in light boxes serve as luminous witnesses of her work ‒there are no original oil paintings in this museum‒, but their absence is compensated with information and a sincere tribute not only to the public figure, but to the human being.
A tourist attraction that you must visit in Playa del Carmen.