KISCELLI TO GO >From the American Road to the Mexican Road
Béla Lajta 150 | City walk with Tamás Csáki, museologist
Schedule
The second stop in our four-hour urban walking tour is American Road, from where we turn onto Mexican Road. We will visit two public buildings designed by architect Béla Lajta: the former Pesti Chevra Kadisa House of Love and Shelter, now the National Institute of Mental, Neurological and Neurosurgical Medicine, on American Road, and the former Jewish Institute for the Blind, now the Kindergarten, Primary School, Secondary School, Secondary School, Unified Institute for Special Education and College, on Mexican Road.
Wearing a mask indoors is compulsory during the walk!
Assembly: from 9:45 at the entrance of OMIII - XIV. district. American Road 57.
Length of the walk: 90 minutes
30 days from the date of purchase.
Kiscelli Museum
The Kiscelli Museum and its 15 hectares of parkland are located in the 3rd district of Budapest, between Óbuda and Remetehegy. The 18th century Baroque church and Trinitarian monastery, built by the Zichy family, was used as a barracks by the army in the 19th century. In 1910 it became the property of furniture manufacturer Miksa Schmidt, who later had it converted into a castle, hence the name Schmidt Castle. It is now home to the Budapest History Museum's collection of Modern Urban History and the Budapest City Gallery, the fine arts collection.
