Freud Museum

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Freud Museum

Worthy of analysis

20 Maresfield Gardens
London, London NW3 5SS
+44 20 7435 2002 / +44 20 7435 5167
http://www.freud.org.uk/index.html

The Freud Museum occupies the former home of Sigmund Freud and his family. They lived here after they fled Austria during 1938, in the wake of the Nazi annexation. The focus of the museum is Freud's library and study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime, and containing his remarkable collection of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Oriental antiquities. In all, the museum holds almost two thousand items, including the desk where Freud often wrote until the early hours of the morning. Undoubtedly the most famous piece of furniture in the entire collection is Freud's couch, on which his patients reclined while revealing their innermost hopes and fears. The museum's central function is to celebrate the lives and works of Sigmund and Anna Freud, but it is also being developed as a cultural and research centre for psychoanalysis. It has an education service that organises seminars, conferences and special visits to the museum. The shop offers plenty of books on Freud himself, as well as a wide range of books on contemporary psychoanalysis. There is disabled access, but only to the ground floor of the museum.

Review © 2009, Wcities

Freud Museum Photo: Nat Hansen

Freud Museum Photo: Ryan Ressler

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