Freud Museum

Why go

The museum owns Freud's collection of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Oriental antiquities, and his personal library. The house has a well maintained garden which is still much as Freud would have known it. The collection includes a portrait of Freud by Salvador Dalí.

What to look for

• The ground floor of the museum houses Freud's study, library, hall and the dining room.
• Freud continued to work in London and it was here that he completed his book Moses and Monotheism.
• The latter was opened by president Václav Klaus and four of Freud's great-grandsons.

The full story

In 1938, after escaping Nazi annexation of Austria he came to London via Paris and stayed for a short while at 39 Elsworthy Road before moving to 20 Maresfield Gardens, where the museum is situated. Although he died a year later in the same house, his daughter Anna Freud continued to stay there until her death in 1982. He also maintained his practice in this home and saw a number of his patients for analysis. The centrepiece of the museum is the couch brought from Berggasse 19, Vienna on which his patients were asked to say whatever came to their mind without consciously selecting information, named the free association technique by him. There are two other Freud Museums, one in Vienna, and another in Příbor, the Czech Republic, in the house where Sigmund Freud was born.

Useful to know

• Confirm current admission and opening times before leaving.

Your next visit

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