The Museo Dolores Olmedo (or the Dolores Olmedo Museum) is an

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, based on the collection of the Mexican businesswoman

Dolores Olmedo María de los Dolores Olmedo y Patiño Suarez (December 14, 1908 – July 26, 2002; Mexico City) was a Mexican businesswoman, philanthropist and musician, better known for her friendship with the Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and her husband Die ...

. The museum will be relocated to

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in 2024.

History

In 1962, Dolores Olmedo acquired a property at

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in southern

, which she would later convert into the museum named after herself in 1994. Donating her entire collection of art including

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, colonial, folk, modern and contemporary art, the Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum hosts the greatest collection of

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Diego Rivera Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the ...

, and

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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 170 paintings, including 145 by

, 25 by his wife

, some of their scripts and drawings, nearly 6,000 pre-Hispanic figurines and sculptures, and diverse living animals such as

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, six Xoloitzcuintles, and

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s 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 artists whom she nurtured in her latter years including

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and

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. The museum now holds a permanent exhibition of works by Russian-Mexican artist

, who was Diego Rivera's first wife.

Gallery

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References

External links

Museo Dolores Olmedo websiteVirtual tour of the Museo Dolores Olmedo
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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. The museum will be relocated to Chapultepec in 2024. History In 1962, Do ...

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