Sigmund Freud Museum

Vienna’s most famous address opened its doors again in 2020 after 18 months of refurbishment and remodeling. The rooms in which Sigmund Freud lived and worked have been turned into an 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.

Berggasse 19, Vienna, Alsergrund. If you’re on the trail of Sigmund Freud, you’ll come here – to the birthplace of psychoanalysis. And just like his patients did over 100 years ago, you’ll also stand downstairs at the door and ring the bell on the door of the world-famous professor. The moment you step inside, it becomes clear that the Sigmund Freud Museum is no ordinary memorial site. It is a place that preserves Freud’s spirit to this day. But it also serves as a warning about the loss of culture and humanity under the terror regime of National Socialism.

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. The family moved constantly between different floors during these years. His great works ("The Interpretation of Dreams", "Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis", "The Ego and the Id" and many others) were created here. It was right here, in the waiting room of his surgery, that his famous psychological Wednesday meetings (the first psychoanalytical working group) took place. Berggasse 19 is and remains Sigmund Freud’s home and legacy. 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.

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