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Opened to the public in September 2025, the Museo Casa Kahlo, long known as the Casa Roja or red house, offers a quieter and more intimate counterpart to the famous Casa Azul a few steps away in the Coyoacan district of Mexico City. The house, a colonial building distinguished by its deep crimson walls, was bought in the 1930s by the photographer Guillermo Kahlo and his wife Matilde Calderon, the parents of the artist Frida Kahlo, and for much of the twentieth century it was the home of Frida's younger sister Cristina, serving as a refuge for the painter at various periods of her life. Where the Casa Azul presents the public legend of Frida the icon, the Casa Roja turns inward to explore the family that shaped her, beginning with a genealogical room that lays out the Kahlo family tree and continuing through her father's photographic studio and darkroom, displays of correspondence between Frida and her beloved sister, and personal belongings including jewellery, embroidered dresses, brushes and a childhood microscope. The opening of the Casa Roja added a new and deeply personal chapter to the network of sites in Coyoacan connected with Frida Kahlo, and its appeal lies precisely in its difference from the more theatrical Casa Azul nearby: where the blue house presents the curated, brightly coloured legend of the artist as the world knows her, the red house turns to the family that formed her, offering a quieter, more reflective and more human portrait. The property had belonged to the Kahlo family for generations, and until shortly before it became a museum direct descendants still lived there, cataloguing and preserving the belongings that now fill its rooms. The visit explores the figure of Frida's father, Guillermo Kahlo, a German immigrant who became a noted architectural photographer, through his preserved studio and darkroom, with period cameras, original negatives and his images of the buildings of the era, and it traces the technical and visual sensibility Frida inherited from him. Letters, photographs, jewellery, embroidered garments, devotional objects and early works, including childhood embroidery and drawings, build an intimate picture of the household. Visited together with the Casa Azul a short walk away, the museum has been described as reading the opening chapters of a life otherwise known only from its middle, and it offers admirers of the artist a fresh and moving perspective on the woman behind the icon.