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Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño - Mexico City
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The Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum will change its location after 30 years of having been inaugurated in the Finca La Noria, a building dating from the 7th century, located in the Colonia La Noria, Xochimilco, in Mexico City.
The new facilities were specially built to house the Dolores Olmedo collection at Aztlán Parque Urbano in Chapultepec. As it is part of the offer that the free amusement park will provide to the citizens. During the test phase prior to the official opening of the space, the president of Mota Engil Mexico, José Miguel Bejos, reiterated that the museum will be a reality. "The new home of the Dolores Olmedo Museum will house the most extraordinary collection of artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and many more, bringing such important work closer to millions of Mexicans and foreigners".
Since 2021 it was announced that the Dolores Olmedo Museum would move, it was subsequently kept closed and throughout 2022 and 2023 the legacy of great Mexican and foreign painters began to prepare to change its location.
The original site of one of the most important museums in the country, it opened its doors in Xochimilco; it was inaugurated in 1994 by its founder, Dolores Olmedo Patiño, who decided to convert her former residence into a museum to exhibit her extensive art collection.
Dolores was a prominent Mexican businesswoman and philanthropist, known primarily for her important contribution to the Mexican art world. She also played a key role in promoting and preserving the artistic legacy of two of Mexico's most important artists: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
For this reason, the museum's collection consists mainly of works by these two 20th century Mexican artists. It also has works by other important artists such as Angelina Beloff and Pablo O'Higgins. Among other elements that characterised the cultural precinct is that it has a significant collection of Mexican folk art, including ceramics, textiles and toys, among others.
The collection of the Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum is made up of:
139 works by Diego Rivera
25 works by Frida Kahlo
43 pieces by Angelina Beloff
More than 600 pieces of pre-Hispanic art.
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26th October 2019
As of September 7th 2019, the public has been able to enjoy the renovation of the museum's permanent museography, which includes the collection of works by Frida Kahlo.
On September 17th, 1994, El Olmedo opened its doors to the public. This space, conceived by Dolores Olmedo Patiño, concentrates today the world's largest collections of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo meet again in the rooms of El Olmedo to celebrate 25 years of the museum. As part of the renovation of the museology of the permanent collection, the public will be able to visit, from September 7, "Diego & Frida. 25 years in El Olmedo". It is the first time in the history of the museum that the work of both artists coexists in one room, since previously they had been exhibited separately.
The new museum presentation of the permanent collection also includes works by Angelina Beloff and the exhibition Frida –My Life–, by Renate Reichert, acquired in 1999. In addition, the Moroleón series of catrines are added to the tour of the Popular Art Hall, Guanajuato, and Judas by Carmen Caballero.
"Diego & Frida. 25 years in El Olmedo" includes 27 paintings by Diego Rivera and 20 by Frida Kahlo".
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4th April 2014
Check out this link, watch an interesting video of the Museum included in the Google Art Project.
The Dolores Olmedo Patiño Musem (Hacienda La Noria - 5843 Av. Mexico - Xochimilco district of Mexico City) holds as part of its permanent exhibit the most important and representative collection of paintings and drawings of Frida Kahlo. Included are works such as the Portrait of Alicia Galant dated 1927, which was Frida's first easel painting; and the autobiographical works such as Mi Nana y Yo (My Nanny and Me), and La Columna Rota (The Broken Column) which are paintings that reveal how Kahlo depicted her own reality by employing a mixture of realistic and symbolic elements.
In the painting Autorretrato con Changuito (Self portrait with Monkey) Frida depicted herself bound to symbolic images whereby she revealed the children that she was unable to bear. In the canvas Hospital Henry Ford of 1932, the laces that Frida holds with her left hand are umbilical cords or arteries that are tied to six elements related to the supposed abortion that she had recently suffered. Another testimonial work called Unos Cuantos Piquetitos (A Few Small Nips), inspired by a sensasionalist newspaper article, refers to a personal situation of Frida's life; it was painted when she discovered Rivera's affair with her sister Cristina.
Part of the Kahlo collection is the masterpiece El Difuntito Dimas (The Deceased Little Dimas), a boy of tree years of age lying on a petate (mat) on the day of his funeral, dressed as Saint Joseph -- a theme that forms part of the Mexican iconographical repertoire of Colonial votive offerings (exvotos) that Frida collected.
The Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum's Collection is rich in significant works, although no less important are the drawings that portray the symbolic world of Frida; some of them are preparatory sketches and others are finished works in themselves, as is the case of her invaluable diary's drawings that register her experiences and thoughts.
