A&A Falk Miksa Street

Falk Miksa Street – Art&Antique Street (Falk Art Forum Festival)

In the heart of Budapest – in Lipótváros – there is a nice, narrow street rimmed with trees: the Falk Miksa Street, which has been the home of the highest-standard galleries, pieces of art and auction houses for many years, their number is around fifty. In the spring of 2006 an idea came up to open the Falk Miksa Street to the public: as a result, the Falk Art Forum Festival of Antique and Modern Art was established. On this day you can step into everywhere and chat with everybody. The galleries are open and ready to show their secrets. You can listen to music and also the benches are piece of art where you can sit. Falk Art Forum is a meeting point of styles, ages, generations and draughtsmanships.

For the Falk Miksa street to become the cultural center of Budapest, with year-round exhibitions, auctions and social art events, the local art galleries and coffee shops established the Art&Antique Street community.

Their aim is to show the treasures of fine art to a wider range of people, and prove that anyone can be a connoisseur.

The members of A&A Street organize various events to promote Falk Miksa street to become what the art collectors already think of it: the cultural main street of the capital

Our Mission

The historical values within our grasp to bring the people so that the antiques are a family member again. Not all old and valuable objects priceless experience that you will turn to.

Gallery

Sights

Statue of Peter Falk (by Géza Dezső Fekete)

The neo-Baroque building at No. 2, which also overlooks Kossuth Square, designed by Béla Málnai, the former Hungarian General Coal Mining Company's pension institute's tenement building, with its wrought-iron gate, coloured marble lobby and unique elliptical staircase.

The Egyptian-style gate of the apartment building at No 13, also covered with copper elements.

The Zsolnay-tiled staircase, shipping reliefs and stained glass windows of the former luxury tenement building rented by the Atlantica Shipping Company at Nos 18-20.

The apartment building at No 10, a model of the "French courtyard" block design of 100 years ago, with the special feature of the building being the vaulted basement system running underneath, which also houses a gallery.

Interesting facts about the street

The street was named after Miksa Falk, a writer, journalist and politician, editor-in-chief of Pester Lloyd, who at one time taught Hungarian to Empress Elisabeth Sisi.

The area belonged to the nuns of Margaret Island until 1752, when it became a centre of industry with mills, textile and arms factories.

The street is a regular stopover for world stars visiting Hungary in search of special artefacts, and Hollywood set designers like to buy furniture and objects from the shops here to use on the sets of their films.

Miklós Radnóti spent his childhood in the house at number 7.

The gallery at number 21 was once the Lipót, later Luxor Café, the haunt of many famous artists and actors of the 20th century.