Sigmund Freud Museum
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| place | Vienna - Alsergrund (9th district) |
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| opening | 1971 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 106,000 (2017) |
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Sigmund Freud Private Foundation
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Monika Pessler
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The Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna is showing an exhibition on the history of psychoanalysis and the life of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) in Freud's former practice and apartment .
History and present
The museum is located at Berggasse 19 in Vienna's ninth district ( Alsergrund ). Freud lived and worked here from 1891 to 1938. He and his family moved into a new building in 1891 . The old building at this point, in which the politician Victor Adler , among others , had lived, had been demolished. After Austria's "annexation" to the German Reich , Freud had to emigrate to London with his daughter Anna Freud in 1938 because of his Jewish origins , where he died a year later. Marie Bonaparte helped him with the emigration ; Freud was able to take all his furniture with him. The National Socialist regime set up a Jewish collective apartment in the house .
Documentation on his life and work has been on view since 1971 in the rooms in which he lived for 47 years and where he wrote most of his writings. Changing special exhibitions and a collection of modern art show the influence of psychoanalysis on art and society. The museum consists of Freud's former practice and what was then his private apartment. During the expansion in 2019/2020, the museum area was increased from 280 to 550 square meters.
Attached are a library, which with 40,000 volumes is Europe's largest study library on psychoanalysis, and the research institute of the Sigmund Freud Private Foundation, founded in 2003 . In a room on the ground floor of the building, where the headquarters of the kosher butcher Siegmund Kornmehl was located until 1938, the museum has been operating a showroom for contemporary art since 2002 (since 2014 under the title Schauraum Berggasse 19 ). In this exhibition space, which can only be viewed through the glazed window front, installations by contemporary artists on Freud and topics related to psychoanalysis have since changed at irregular intervals . So far, works by Joseph Kosuth , Louise Bourgeois , Monika Sosnowska , Ernesto Neto , Joan Jonas , Clegg & Guttmann , Franz West , Peter Kogler , Susan Hefuna and Markus Schinwald have been shown .
Original pieces from Freud's possession can be seen in the museum as well as the practice's waiting room and some pieces from Freud's extensive collection of ancient works of art, mainly small statues. Most of the earlier furnishings with the famous couch are in the Freud Museum in London , where Anna Freud lived until her death in 1982.
In addition to Vienna and London, there has been a third Freud Museum in Příbor (Freiberg in Moravia ) in the Czech Republic since 2006 . The house where Sigmund Freud was born was opened to the public.
The museum in Berggasse was opened in 1971 by the Sigmund Freud Society in the presence of Freud's youngest daughter Anna Freud . Was significantly involved in the foundation u. a. the Viennese psychoanalyst Harald Leupold-Löwenthal . In 1996 an expansion took place, which enabled special exhibition and event rooms. In 2003 the museum was incorporated into the Sigmund Freud Private Foundation , whose chairman is Peter Nömaier. In 2006, the City of Vienna contributed the entire Berggasse 19 building to the foundation in order to create the basis for the expansion and opening up of all areas in which Freud lived for the museum.
The director of the museum was Inge Scholz-Strasser from 1996 to 2013 ; since then it is Monika Pessler. The historian Lydia Marinelli worked at the Sigmund Freud Museum from 1992 until her death in 2008 .
The museum organizes the Sigmund Freud Lecture , which has been held every year since 1970 on May 6, Freud's birthday. Prominent psychoanalysts speak here on topics of current relevance. This lecture was founded by the Sigmund Freud Society and is now being continued by the Sigmund Freud Private Foundation . It is now taking place at different venues in Vienna.
In 2017, the museum recorded 106,315 visits. In 2016, 103,722 visits were reported. In 2015 there were 91,322 visits, in 2014 84,293 visits.
- Renovation 2019/20
In 2019/2020, a redesign of the museum made the entire first floor of the house accessible to visitors, including the part of Freud's former apartment that was previously inaccessible. The city of Vienna financed 2.5 million of the renovation budgeted for 3.9 million euros in 2017. On March 1, 2019, the Freud Museum in Haus Berggasse 19 closed for the renovation. The reopening of the enlarged museum took place on August 29, 2020. All private and ordination rooms were made accessible for four million euros.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Freud Museum closes for renovation. In: wien.ORF.at. March 1, 2019, accessed on August 29, 2020 : “After 1938, the apartment and practice rooms at Berggasse 19 were used by the Nazis as the so-called“ Jewish collective apartment ”. Jews had to wait here for their deportation. 89 Jews stayed in the Freud's apartment. "
- ↑ Sigmund Freud Museum 2020 (PDF 5.8 MB).
- ↑ Showroom Berggasse 19 , freud-museum.at
- ↑ Roman Tschiedl: "showroom Berggasse 19" , Radio Ö1 Leporello , September 30, 2015
- ^ Sigmund Freud Museum: Another record number of visitors. In: Der Standard from January 11, 2018, p. 23.
- ↑ Thomas Trenkler: Success! Records! Declines! Kurier daily newspaper , Vienna , February 13, 2017, p. 22
- ↑ Thomas Trenkler: Viennese museums report records. Kurier daily newspaper , Vienna , January 18, 2016, p. 24
- ↑ Freud Museum relocates for major renovation ORF Vienna, January 6, 2019
- ↑ The enlarged Sigmund Freud Museum opens. In: ORF.at . August 26, 2020, accessed August 26, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 7 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 47 ″ E