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, based on the collection of the Mexican businesswoman Dolores Olmedo. The museum will be relocated to Chapultepec in 2024.

History

In 1962, Dolores Olmedo acquired a property at La Noria,

in southern

, 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

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, 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 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 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.

Gallery

File:Tradiciones en el Dolores Olmedo 03.jpg, Traditions in Dolores Olmedo File:Tradiciones en el Dolores Olmedo 15.JPG, Traditions in Dolores Olmedo File:Tradiciones_en_el_Dolores_Olmedo_01.jpg, Traditions in Dolores Olmedo File:Parte_trasera_del_museo.jpg, Part of the museum where Frida Kahlo's exhibition is File:Ermita del Museo Dolores Olmedo, Ciudad de México.jpg, Very old hermitage that is inside the museum

References

External links

Museo Dolores Olmedo websiteVirtual tour of the Museo Dolores Olmedo
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