I had such high hopes but left feeling like this was more of tourist trap. Buying my ticket online was a hassle, took 12 tries before it went through, I don’t understand how a museum that requires you to buy your ticket online has such a horrible system. It’s also 30 pesos to take photos there as well, which comes out to a total of 297.50 pesos. I wouldn’t say you get your moneys worth at all.

I read another review that mentions shooting for the 5pm as it’s less people and it’s the last time of that, totally agree with that. What I didn’t expect was ro feel rushed by all or the staff!

I arrived right at 5pm and waited a while in line as they let people in. Online or says you need to print your tickets, YOU DO NOT NEED TOO. I spent from 5-6:30 there. There’s some info panels that are in a small font, so waiting to get in-front of them to read them took the longest out of anything there.

In the first room I was stopped by a guard for taking photos even though I put the pass on the back of my phone. They did apologize but a little frustrating all the same. To add to it, I had a small kanken backpack that they asked me to wear front facing, yet another woman had the exact same backpack and they never asked her.

The museum shows a where she lived and her work which was very cool. But there’s do not touch stickers on a lot of walls and such that do show up in a lot of photos. They museum doesn’t tell a lot about her life, it’s snippets here and there, I would highly recommend the podcast History Chicks which does a whole episode on her and gives WAY more information than I got from the museum. The way Rivera is portrayed was a bit unnerving too, rose colored glasses galore.

I was in the last group of about 10 people going through the museum and the staff could not get us out of there fast enough. I’ve never felt so rushed in a museum before. That alone to me was the worst part of this experience. Having staff literally behind you trying to lock up. On my way out it does say that it closes at 5:45, and the little store closes then as well. After waiting in line and buying the pass and just waiting for the people in front to go in, I didn’t even start looking at parts of the museum until 5:10 at least. The whole situation seemed very unreasonable and left a bad taste in my mouth.

I would say happy I’ve been once, but my expectations were way to high, and left very disappointed in the entire experience. The house it’s self and her work is incredible. Again, just totally disappointed in the experience.