Museo Dolores Olmedo

The Museo Dolores Olmedo (or the Dolores Olmedo Museum) is an art museum in the capital of Mexico, based on the collection of the Mexican businesswoman Dolores Olmedo.[1]

Entrance of the Museo Dolores Olmedo in 2011, now without the second name "Patino"
Altar to Dolores Olmedo at the Dolores Olmedo Museum for Day of the Dead.
Statue of the 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 greatest collection of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Angelina Beloff artworks. Upon Olmedo's death in 2002, she left funds for taking care of her museum, now open to the public.

Collections

The five-building complex contains up to 150 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.

Recent developments

Recently new areas have been added to the museum, "her private rooms" where she kept original decorations of her house such as ivory, china, and artwork by artist whom she nurtured in her latter years including José Juárez and Francisco Guevara. The museum now holds a permanent exhibition of works by Russian-Mexican artist Angelina Beloff, who was Diego Rivera's first wife.

  • Traditions in Dolores Olmedo
  • Traditions in Dolores Olmedo
  • Traditions in Dolores Olmedo
  • Part of the museum where Frida Kahlo's exhibition is
  • Very old hermitage that is inside the museum

References
  1. Mi Héroe: Dolores Olmedo biography Archived 2007-08-22 at the Wayback Machine. (in Spanish)



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