Dolores Olmedo

In 1962, she acquired a property at La Noria in Xochimilco, southern Mexico City, which she later converted into a museum named after herself in 1994.

[2] The five-building complex contains up to 150 paintings, including 145 Riveras, 25 Kahlos (and some of their scripts and drawings), nearly 6,000 pre-Hispanic figurines and sculptures as well as diverse living animals such as geese, ducks, six Xoloitzcuintles and Indian peafowls kept in gardens.

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.

For decades, Olmedo collected songs and stories from various indigenous groups in Mexico, translated them into Spanish and published them.

Now we hope again for the morrow, And stoke the flame to burn, Love for the land, long hidden, Ignited by despair and yearn.