Sigmund Freud Museum

The rooms in which Sigmund Freud lived and worked have been turned into exhibition object in the freshly renovated museum. This new approach lets us rediscover the founding father of psychoanalysis. We're sure that Freud would have enjoyed it.

The Sigmund Freud Museum at Berggasse 19 in Vienna’s Alsergrund district houses the former practice and apartment of the world-famous psychoanalyst. The small but lovely exhibition in the original premises primarily deals with the life of Freud and includes glimpses into his work. A special aura is attached to the museum, and it’s no wonder, as here, a genius also spent many years with his patients in these treatment rooms. And according to visitors, this aura can still be felt today. Like the opinion on the person himself, the opinion of the museum in Vienna is divided in an exciting way.

Visitors are led from room to room by an audio guide that tells their story. As a result, the 45 minutes to an hour and a half that you can spend in these relatively small premises passes quite quickly. Laid out with plenty of attention to detail, the museum presents the memory of an exceptional human being. Rumour has it that not only are the building and exhibition exciting to look at, but it is also interesting to observe their visitors.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Sigmund Freud lived and worked in this classic Viennese tenement block built at the height of the Gründerzeit for almost half a century, from 1891 to 1938.
• After the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany, Freud had to flee in June 1938 and spent the last year of his life in London. Severely ill with cancer, he took his own life with an overdose of morphine, assisted by a doctor he had become friends with. Freud was 83 years old
• For the first time since the museum was established in 1971, all of Freud's private rooms have been made accessible to visitors

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