Museo Frida Kahlo Mexico City This is a great little museum seeing round Frida's family house with plenty of information in English and English subtitles on the videos. It takes about an hour and a half. But you HAVE to buy your timed ticket in advance online. I see that there are offers for tickets for £26 (!! ) -they are 230 pesos £9 direct from the3 Frida Kahlo museum website direct - and they have an English webpage option. The museum website emails tickets to you and you can keep them on your phone or (safer I think) print them out at home. It sometimes takes a couple of hours for them to come through so give yourself time. If you want a guided tour, fine, but don't pay more just for tickets. The museum is closed Monday like all museums here, and on Tuesday opens at 10 but the first timed ticket entry is at 10.30. Be there beforehand. There are two queues/lines: one for the savvy traveller who has booked online and one very long one winding round the block for those who have just turned up to buy at the door. You could waste a lot of your life in there and still not get in. There is a very nice market a couple of blocks away where you can buy your Frida Kahlo souvenirs and some nice pottery. The museum is about 20 minutes walk from Coyoacan metro station. Check it out on google maps first as it is not obviously signposted.

I'm not a great one for visiting museums, but had heard that this one about Frida was a must. Every taxi driver in Mexico knows it as the blue house so it's easy to get to and a cheap ride. It's essential to book a visit slot in advance to avoid queuing for 2 to 3 hours. Each entry slot is at half hourly intervals and rather than the huge left queue, you join the right hand shorter queue. Bags and rucksacks need to be checked in and photos in the museum require a permit for a small fee. Photos in the internal courtyard area are allowed without the permit. As you walk through at your own pace, you get a sense of her hardship and illnesses as well as the exceptional work that she produced. It's a great way to spend an afternoon and very moving.

Known also as the blue house, was the home of Frida Kahlo where she lived with her husband and artist Diego Rivera and after her death the house was made a museum in her honour. Now this exhibits the personal collections and dresses of Frida and some of the art works of Diego Rivera as well. There is usually a long line for the tickets and it will be worth buying it online. Unfortunately some international credit cards are not accepted online and a safer bet is to try with debit cards. The entry charges are 250 pesos for foreigners Tuesday to Friday and during week ends, it is 270 pesos. For those who have tickets done, there is a separate queue forming to the right side of the main gate and the for those without tickets, it is on the left side. The first slots for admission starts at 10.30. The museum is open from 10.00 to 5.30. You will need to check in your bags at the entrance and you can opt for audio guides there. Once inside the court yard there is a counter on the right side where you need to pay for permission to photograph. This is required even for mobile phone photography. The charges are 30 pesos. There is a souvenir shop and a coffee shop inside as well as toilets. You can count on spending upwards of two hours depending on the interest.