Museo Dolores Olmedo
The Museo Dolores Olmedo (or the Dolores Olmedo Museum) is an art museum in Xochimilco, Mexico City, based on the collection of the Mexican businesswoman Dolores Olmedo.
Museo Dolores Olmedo

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- Name
- Dolores Olmedo Museum
- Founded
- 1994
- Founder
- Dolores Olmedo
- Headquarters
- Mexico City
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The Museo Dolores Olmedo (or the Dolores Olmedo Museum) is an art museum in Xochimilco, Mexico City, based on the collection of the Mexican businesswoman Dolores Olmedo.
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Key facts
• Name — Dolores Olmedo Museum • Location — Mexico City • Illustration — Altar to Dolores Olmedo at the Dolores Olmedo Museum for Day of the Dead. • Illustration — Statue of Dolores Olmedo
History
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 largest collection of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Angelina Beloff artworks. Upon Olmedo's death in 2002, she left funds for the upkeep of the museum.
Renovations
Renovations
In 2020, the museum closed for renovations and reopened in 2026. Private rooms where Olmedo kept her personal collection of ivory, china and artwork by artists she nurtured were opened to the public and there is a permanent exhibition of works by Russian-Mexican artist Angelina Beloff, who was Diego Rivera's first wife.
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — Traditional crafts at the museum • Illustration — Traditional crafts exhibition • Illustration — Building housing Frida Kahlo exhibition • Illustration — Old hermitage building on museum grounds
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1994
Museo Dolores Olmedo established.
1994
Museo Dolores Olmedo is recorded from 1994.
1994
Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño (1994) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
1994
Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño digitised by Open Library.
2007
Museo Dolores Olmedo digitised by Open Library.
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The five-building complex contains up to 170 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.
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Museo Dolores Olmedo (2007) — Open Library
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