Freud Museum (London)

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Freud Museum (view from the garden)

The Freud Museum in London is showing an exhibition on the life and work of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud , and his daughter Anna Freud in the Freud family's exile apartment . It is located at 20 Maresfield Gardens in the Hampstead neighborhood .

In 1938 the founder of psychoanalysis fled his hometown with the support of Marie Bonaparte . Sigmund Freud left Vienna after Austria was "annexed" to Nazi-ruled Germany and traveled to London, where he lived at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, one of the most intellectual districts of London, until his death the following year. Freud's daughter Anna Freud , a pioneer in child psychoanalysis , lived here until her death in 1982.

Freud Museum (view from the street)
Freud's sofa in the museum

In 1974, the daughter of Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham , Anna Freud's partner , took her own life in the Freuds' London house by overdosing on sleeping pills. Mary ("Mabbie") Burlingham was a long-time patient of Anna Freud.

The Freud family was able to take their furniture and household effects with them to London due to Freud's international fame and the support provided by Marie Bonaparte in Vienna. The showpiece of the exhibition in the museum is the couch on which Freud's patients lay during the analytic sessions. There are also Biedermeier chests, tables and cupboards as well as a collection of painted Austrian farmhouse furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries. The museum also owns Freud's collection of Egyptian , Greek , Roman and Oriental antiquities and his reference library. The collection also includes a portrait of Freud by Salvador Dalí .

The museum is open five days a week. It organizes research programs and publications and has a department that organizes seminars, conferences and special tours of the museum. It is a member of The London Museums of Health and Medicine .

There are two other well-known Freud museums, the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna , which opened in 1971, and one that opened in 2006 in Freud's birthplace in Příbor (Freiberg in Moravia ) in the Czech Republic .

See also

Web links

Commons : Category: Freud Museum, London  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael John Burlingham: Behind Glass. A Biography of Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham. Other Press LLC, New York 2002, p. 310.
  2. ^ About the Museum , accessed February 1, 2008.

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 54 ″  N , 0 ° 10 ′ 40 ″  W.