- Source: Casa Museo Leonora Carrington
The Casa Museo Leonora Carrington, formerly Casa Estudio or Casona Leonora Carrington, was the home of British surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington. It is found at Chihuahua Street 194, colonia Roma Norte, in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City.
The house was expected to open to the public as a museum in 2022. In 2024 it was announced by its university owners that the house would not become a museum.
History
Leonora Carrington lived in the house for more than 60 years, from 1948 until her death in 2011. It is a three-story mansion in Chihuahua Street in colonia Roma Norte, Mexico City. There, she created most of her works and also raised her children with her husband Emerico "Chiki" Weisz, a Hungarian photographer.
In 2017 the house was purchased by Mexico City’s Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana from Carrington's son with the stipulation that it would become a museum. Starting in 2018 work began on the house to enable it to receive visitors and display more than 8,000 of the artist's objects. In October 2024 it was announced by the university that the house would not become a museum and would instead become a "documentation centre" for "teaching and research".
Gallery
See also
Museo Leonora Carrington
Frida Kahlo Museum
Luis Barragán House and Studio
List of historic house museums in Mexico
References
External links
Official website
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- Casa Museo Leonora Carrington
- Leonora Carrington
- Museo Leonora Carrington
- Les Distractions de Dagobert
- How Doth the Little Crocodile (Carrington)
- List of historic house museums in Mexico
- Regional Museum of Anthropology and History of Chiapas
- Roberta Lobeira Alanís
- Frida Kahlo
- Diego Rivera
