Museo Casa Kahlo
Museo Casa Kahlo, an initiative of the Kahlo family and the Fundación, opened in September 2025 in Coyoacán, Mexico City. It was Frida’s family home, passed down through generations, and donated by her grandniece, Mara Romeo Kahlo. The museo focuses on Frida’s origins and family life, with personal artifacts and works of art that give an intimate look into her life.
Since opening, the museum has already increased cultural tourism in Mexico City, generated tens of millions of dollars in media value, and reached 1.48 billion people worldwide. The museum serves as a cultural and economic hub, strengthening Mexico’s global cultural identity, and was recently named as one of Time Out’s 26 Best New Things to Do in the World and a member of J.P. Morgan’s NextList for 2026.
For more information on Casa Roja, as it is affectionately called, please visit www.museocasakahlo.org.
The Kahlo Art Prize
The Kahlo Art Prize is a biennial award sponsored by Fundación Kahlo for Mexican Art and Culture. It is inspired by Frida—her artistic integrity, values, tenacity, and individuality. Frida was a great mentor and teacher, encouraging her students to seek inspiration beyond their surroundings while creating art rooted in their emotional core. The award follows Frida's example in supporting and promoting emerging artists, seeking to continue her legacy in elevating the talent of today. Additionally, this award celebrates Mexican arts and highlights this vibrant global culture.
This prize celebrates emerging talent and provides essential recognition and validation in the art world. The selected artist receives financial support and the freedom to develop their artistic practice and explore new creative directions. Beyond the cash award, the prize includes a major exhibition opportunity, continued artistic mentorship, and international exposure for its recipients. The program highlights and promotes the work of Mexican contemporary visual artists early in their careers, whose perspectives resonate globally.
An international panel of art world luminaries will judge this prestigious award, in partnership with the Foundation board and the family.
La Ayuda
Cristina, Frida Kahlo’s sister and the only member of her immediate family to have children, was a longtime advocate for single mothers and needy children within their community. In a time and cultural environment inhospitable to their needs, Cristina and the Kahlo family created “La Ayuda” – a mutual aid society providing diapers, food, and other supplies to those to whom traditional charitable organizations had turned their backs.
In celebration of the family’s legacy of giving, Fundación Kahlo is reviving La Ayuda on an international scale. Details on the specific programs included in the effort, including local material support and global initiatives, will be announced later this year.
Repatriation
OVERVIEW
The Fundación Kahlo Art Repatriation Project is a POL Consortium-led project to acquire, repatriate, and steward Frida Kahlo works in Mexico through an expanded Museo Casa Kahlo in Coyoacán. The plan begins with the acquisition of available works and advances in phases toward larger holdings, including the Gelman collection. It is both an art acquisition strategy and a long-term patrimony plan. Because the current museum footprint is limited, the project also contemplates acquiring neighboring properties to create a museum extension with carefully integrated hospitality and visitor support. The plan has been developed by POL Consortium under the strategic vision of global advisor Hedda Moye Leonardi and Fundación Kahlo Chairman Rick Miramontez. The objective is simple: bring Frida Kahlo’s art home and create a permanent institutional setting worthy of her legacy. The strategy is further supported by a digital provenance and patron layer that strengthens acquisition funding, transparency, and long-term sustainability.
MISSION & PURPOSE
The core mission of the Fundación Kahlo Art Repatriation Project is to return Frida Kahlo’s work to Fundación Kahlo and to the cultural life of Mexico. It is a stewardship initiative: to bring available works into a permanent institutional setting rooted in authenticity, scholarship, and public access. As the Gelman strategy materials make clear, the aim is to secure Kahlo’s legacy for public benefit, prevent further dispersion, and support it through an expanded and endowed Museo Casa Kahlo. This is the four-fold mission:
To bring available Kahlo works under the stewardship of Fundación Kahlo;
To create the museum-grade environment required to preserve and interpret them properly;
To establish a sustainable operating framework around the collection through ticketing, programming, memberships, dining, retail, and selective touring;
To ensure that the works remain rooted in the Kahlo family story and are not diluted into a generic cultural asset strategy.
Casa Roja Sessions
About The Sessions
From the heart of Mexico to the world, the “Casa Roja Sessions” is a produced performance and dialogue series filmed inside Museo Casa Kahlo—Frida Kahlo’s historic family home and now museum. Each episode pairs a global artist with Mexico’s ancestral musicians and contemporary thought leaders, activating Frida’s legacy. Unfolding before small, invited audiences, and recorded and filmed for targeted global audiences., we share Mexico’s artistic heartbeat with the world.
Casa Roja Sessions creates a new global cultural bridge:
Re-centers Indigenous musicians within contemporary creative spaces
Expands Mexico’s cultural footprint through an authentic, artistic lens
Positions Museo Casa Kahlo as a living cultural engine
Aligns with global demand for meaningful, culturally anchored storytelling
All proceeds raised through future events will go towards supporting the Fundación Kahlo initiatives in collaboration with our Sessions artists.
Join Us
It gives us great pleasure to revive Frida Kahlo’s legendary bohemian gatherings—las bohemíadas—within her private family home, now Museo Casa Kahlo.
These gatherings once brought together friends, artists, cultural thinkers, and political voices from Mexico and across the world. Reimagined for our time as the Casa Roja Sessions, they unfold as intimate, unplugged, and unscripted encounters—where music and conversation engage the urgent questions of our moment with sincerity and quiet resonance.
At their core, the Casa Roja Sessions create a space of cultural transmission, where indigenous musicians and contemporary artists meet to honor ancestral sound and allow new stories to emerge and take form.