What to do and see in Mexico City, Mexico: The Best Specialty Museums

The lifelong home of Frida Kahlo is now a museum dedicated to the work of this famous 20th-century artist.

This museum has a huge collection of artwork ranging from ancient times to the present. The most important collection of Mexican art.

This small museum is connected with the famous San Carlos Academy, the art school which Diego Rivera attended.

The Museum Franz Mayer Is a cultural trust administered by the Bank of Mexico, with a Board established by the German philanthropist and collector Franz Mayer. For 32 years, this non-profit institution has been dedicated to preserve, research and present an extensive collection of books, paintings, and decorative arts which constitute Franz Mayer’s legacy, as well as other important collections, such as the Collection of Popular Art by Ruth D. Lechuga and William Spratling. The museum is located in a unique 16th century building in the Historic Center of Mexico City, which belonged to the order of San Juan de Dios and functioned as a hospital until 1966. The Franz Mayer Museum encourages innovation and creativity through researching, preserving and presenting art and design present in its permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. Furthermore, the museum seeks to be an institution of excellence that provides experiences of knowledge and enjoyment to all publics, contributing

The house where Leon Trotsky, the exiled Russian leader, lived the final three years of his life in the 1930s.

Located at the Castle of Chapultepec, a structure which has served as everything from a military academy to the home of the Mexican president, this museum specializes in Mexican art and culture from the beggining of the Conquest of Mexico until the beggining of the 20th. Century.

Located in an old mansion, this museum chronicles the history of Mexico's capital city from the time before European contact to present day.

Located in Xochimilco, at Mexico City’s southern extreme, the Dolores Olmedo Museum is housed in a rambling stone structure, originally dating from the Sixteenth Century, formerly known as the Hacienda La Noria. By donating her art collection to the people of Mexico, Dolores Olmedo Patiño created a cohesive whole, where treasures of the fine arts were incorporated into colonial construction added during the Seventeenth Century, surrounded by lush gardens, shaded by singularly Mexican plant species, and inhabited by gorgeous animals like the magical peacocks –seemingly confected of living jewels—and the enigmatic hairless Xoloiztcuintle dogs, a Precolumbian breed that is unique to behold and warm to the touch.Since the museum opened its doors to the public in September of 1994, its greatest treasure is its painting. The world’s most important collections of works by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo are housed here permanently and are adored by the legions of visitors who flock to admire them. There is, as well, a collection of the woodcuts and book illustrations by Russo-French painter Angelina Beloff, Rivera’s companion during his early years as a budding painter in Europe.

This impressive building made of volcanic stone was designed by Diego Rivera and houses his collection of pre-Columbian art.