Freud's museums are located in two cities - in Vienna and London. Here are the original details of the interior of the houses where the creator of psychoanalysis, a new direction in psychology and psychiatry, lived and worked. Visitors have a rare chance to see the reception room, where Dr. Freud received patients, the famous couch, his office, his personal collection of art objects, and to inspect the garden where he used to walk.
Vein
The Sigmund Freud Museum is located in the same apartment where he lived and worked for 47 years, from 1891 to 1938. The modest house number 19 on Bergasse street in the Serviten quarter is a pretty popular place, where hundreds of tourists who find themselves in Vienna are seeking. It is here, at this address, is the office and reception room where the doctor received his patients.
The museum consists of several rooms in which the Freud family once lived. And also here the working rooms were preserved, including the waiting room, where the doctor’s patients spent time before the appointment. Here, an exhibition is presented to visitors, consisting of photographs and documents, which tells about life and psychotherapeutic medical activities, she devotes the doctor’s biography to some details.
Also here is the largest European library, which is fully devoted to psychoanalysis and has more than 35,000 volumes. The museum contains some personal items that belonged to Freud and his family, for example, work tools, objects of art of the ancient era.
Escape from Vienna
Unfortunately, the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna is not rich in exhibits: the family took most of the things to London. When the Nazis captured Austria in 1938, Freud's family was in danger due to Jewish descent. Having lived in a Vienna apartment for more than 47 years, the author of the theory of psychoanalysis with his wife and youngest daughter Anna was forced to flee to London.
Museum in the capital of Great Britain
The Freud Museum in London is located in the house where the doctor spent the last year of his life. A three-story red brick house with a small garden around is located on Marysfield Garden Street.
The period 1938-1939 It turned out to be extremely difficult for the famous doctor. For many years he suffered from cancer of the jaw, and now the disease has passed to the final stage. When the excruciating pains became unbearable, having received the consent of his daughter, the doctor gave him a lethal injection of morphine. Freud died in his office, where he usually received patients, thought and looked at his flowering garden from a wide window.
However, the museum does not make a depressing impression, as many believe. The family hearth remained cozy, well-groomed and beautiful until the death of Anna in 1982. Here everything remained exactly as it was during Freud's lifetime. Even the garden remained the same as the great psychoanalyst saw it. Although the pines have grown greatly since then, but the plums, almonds, roses are still the same that the doctor admired.
Fortunately, during the flight from Vienna, the family was able to take out most of the expensive antique furniture and a solid library. Many volumes are still on the shelves, and on the walls are paintings and photographs that Freud himself placed there. And the museum also presents a collection of antique art from Ancient Egypt, Greece, the Roman Empire. Repeatedly, the doctor admitted that in his life there are two passions: smoking and collecting.
The same famous couch in which the doctor conducted psychoanalysis sessions is in the Freud Museum of London. The original specimen has been preserved in excellent condition. The doctor’s wife, Martha Freud, said that a grateful patient gave them this couch in 1890. It is a not too long and wide sofa with a raised headboard, covered with an expensive carpet from Iran. Immediately behind her is a green chair, in which Dr. Freud sat, listening to patients. The chair stood precisely from behind, as Sigmund could not stand, so that the patients looked directly at him.
The Freud Museum also houses the room of Anna, the youngest daughter of the doctor. She was a rather famous child psychoanalyst. Her furniture was preserved in the house, including her own daybed.
Freud Museum in Pribor
The doctor was born in the Austrian city of Pribor, which is now located in the Czech Republic. In the very house where he was born, a museum was also equipped in 2006. Within these walls the childhood of the famous doctor passed.