Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna)

The Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna is a museum founded in 1971 covering the Sigmund Freud's life story. It is located in the Alsergrund district, at Berggasse 19. In 2003 the museum was put in the hands of the newly established Sigmund Freud Foundation, which has since received the entire building as an endowment. It also covers the history of psychoanalysis.

Museum

The building was newly built in 1891 when Freud moved there. The previous building on the site, once the home of Victor Adler, had been torn down.

His old rooms, where he lived for 47 years and produced the majority of his writings, now house a documentary centre to his life and works. The influence of psychoanalysis on art and society is displayed through a program of special exhibitions and a modern art collection.

The museum consists of Freud's former practice and a part of his old private quarters. Attached to the museum are Europe's largest psychoanalytic research library, with 35,000 volumes, and the research institute of the Sigmund Freud Foundation.

The display includes original items owned by Freud, the practice's waiting room, and parts of Freud's extensive antique collection. However his famous couch is now in the Freud Museum in London, along with most of the original furnishings, as Freud was able to take his furniture with him when he emigrated. A third Freud Museum, after London and Vienna, was started in the Czech town of Příbor in 2006 when the house of his birth was opened to the public.

The museum contains an archive of images containing around two thousand documents, mostly photographs, but also paintings, drawings, and sculptures. The collection consists of almost all of the existing photos of Sigmund Freud and his family, a large number of photos of Anna Freud and photos from psychoanalytic congresses etc.

History

In 1938 Freud was forced to leave German-annexed Austria due to his Jewish ancestry, and fled to London. The museum was opened in 1971 by the Sigmund Freud Society in the presence of Anna Freud. In 1996 the building was expanded with new rooms for special exhibitions and events. The Foundation has ongoing plans to expand the museum.

Since 1970 the annual Sigmund Freud Lecture has taken place in Vienna on Freud's birthday, 6 May. This event, at which psychoanalysts speak on a contemporary theme, was established by the Sigmund Freud Society and is now organised by the Foundation.

See also

References

http://www.freud-museum.at/cms/index.php/archive.html

External links

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83 oleghope
9 August 2016
Here u feel the spirit of SF's life.U get to know not only about him,but also about his daughter Anna.Have in mind that space is lil & gets overcrowded,so u have to wait outside 4 a while.Ticket @€10.
Bianca Pericolo
22 August 2013
For everyone that studied or is interest in psychoanalysis this place is mandatory. Don't miss the Freud interview in the audio guide and the home videos from the Freud family. It's remarkable!!
Olha Halat
17 May 2013
Audio guide is great! Be sure to listen to everything you can! Another great thing is that you can take photos. The sad part is that after Sigmund Freud moved to London, too little's left in Vienna
Stanislav Dimitrov
18 August 2023
Fascinating experience! Went with basic knowledge about Freud and the place, the conservation of it and the movie his daughter made really moved me! I recommend it, one more must-see while in Vienna.
Katie Sutton
19 March 2016
Take lots of time to listen to the whole audio tour. So much to learn that simply isn't in your usual Freud 101; I knew a little about his work founding psychanalysis, but nothing about his life.
Aycan
15 March 2017
Sigmund Freud'un evi ve muayenehanesi. Bir sürü eserini burada yazmış, 6 çocuğu, eşi ve eşinin kızkardeşiyle hayatının büyük kısmını bu 400 m2lik evde geçirmiş. Psikolojiye ilginiz varsa mutlaka gelin
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