Museo Dolores Olmedo Tickets

After roughly six years dark, the Museo Dolores Olmedo reopened on 30 May 2026 at its original home, the sixteenth-century Hacienda La Noria in Xochimilco. Plans to move the collection north to Chapultepec were dropped after local opposition, so the art came back to the gardens where Dolores Olmedo, a businesswoman and a close friend and model of Diego Rivera, first put it on show. Inside are more than a hundred works by Kahlo and Rivera; outside, peacocks cross the lawns and the hairless xoloitzcuintle dogs that have always lived here doze in the sun.

What will you see at Museo Dolores Olmedo?

The collection holds one of the largest private groups of Diego Rivera's work anywhere, shown alongside a deep set of Frida Kahlo paintings, inside a rambling colonial hacienda with formal gardens.

Rivera runs across the rooms in oils and drawings from many phases of his career, and a dedicated room gathers Kahlo's paintings, the small, intense self-portraits and still lifes she is known for. Olmedo's own taste shows too, in folk art and pre-Hispanic pieces she collected over a long life.

Then there are the grounds. Peacocks, ducks and geese share the lawns with the xoloitzcuintles, the ancient Mexican breed Rivera loved to paint, and the old hacienda buildings give the whole place a slow, garden-museum feel. More than a hundred Kahlo and Rivera works are on display across the reopened galleries.

How much are tickets and how do you buy them?

Admission is tiered. Foreign visitors pay 432 MXN, Mexican nationals pay 162 MXN, and a reduced 70 MXN rate covers Xochimilco residents, students, teachers, seniors and children under twelve. Tickets are sold at the museum's own site and at the gate.

There is no clean skip-line bundle for this one on the big booking platforms, so the museum's official page is where to check the current price and any timed-entry rules put in place after the reopening. Because it only came back in mid-2026, it is worth confirming the details close to your visit rather than assuming older listings still hold.

When is it open and how do you get to Xochimilco?

The museum opens Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 18:00, and closes on Mondays. It sits in La Noria, in Xochimilco, at the far south of the city, and the Xochimilco light rail (Tren Ligero) stops at La Noria a short distance away.

Xochimilco is best known for its canals and painted trajinera boats, so many people pair the museum with a canal ride and make a half-day of the trip south. Allow about ninety minutes to two hours for the art and the gardens. Getting down here from the center takes time, whether by Tren Ligero from Tasquena or by taxi, so build that into the plan.

What pairs with Dolores Olmedo nearby?

If it is Frida and Diego you came for, two more of their houses are bookable, and the pair in Coyoacan share a single ticket.

Start with the Frida Kahlo Museum, her cobalt-blue home in Coyoacan, where tickets are timed and sell out early. That same ticket also covers Museo Anahuacalli, Diego Rivera's volcanic-stone temple of pre-Hispanic art, at no extra cost.

For the couple's studio years, the Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo in San Angel preserves the twin modernist houses where they lived and painted.

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