- Freud Museum
The Freud Museum is situated at 20 Maresfield Gardens in
Hampstead ,London .In 1938, the founder of
psychoanalysis ,Sigmund Freud , leftVienna after the Nazi annexation ofAustria (theAnschluss ) and moved toLondon , taking up residence at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, one of London's most intellectual suburbs. A small sun room in a modern style was added at the rear byErnst Ludwig Freud . Freud was over eighty at this time, and he died the following year, but the house remained in his family until his youngest daughterAnna Freud , who was a pioneer of child therapy, died in 1982.The Freuds were able to move all of their furniture and household effects to London. The star exhibit in the museum is Freud's psychoanalytic couch. There are also
Biedermeier chests, tables and cupboards, and a collection of 18th century and 19th century Austrian painted country furniture. The museum owns Freud's collection of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, andOriental antiquities, and his reference library. The collection includes a portrait of Freud bySalvador Dali . [ [http://www.freud.org.uk/fmaboute.htm About the Museum] accessed 02/01/08]The museum is open to the public five days a week. It also organizes research and publication programmes and it has an education service which organizes seminars, conferences and special visits to the museum. The museum is a member of
the London Museums of Health & Medicine .There are two other Freud Museums, one in
Vienna , and another which has recently opened inPribor , theCzech Republic , in the house where Sigmund Freud was born. The latter was opened by presidentVáclav Klaus and four of Freuďs great-grandsons.References
External links
* [http://www.freud.org.uk/ Official website of the Freud Museum (London)]
* [http://www.freud-museum.at/e/index.html Official website of the Freud Museum (Vienna)]
* [http://pribor.infomorava.cz/encyklopedie/objekty1.phtml?id=50146&typ=444&id_obce=18450&lng=2&menu= Pribor, Czech Republic website about Sigmund Freud and information about the museum]
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