Freud Museum London, House museum in Hampstead, London, Great Britain.
The Freud Museum sits in a brick house at 20 Maresfield Gardens and shows the working room where Sigmund Freud received patients, complete with the psychoanalytic couch and his collection of ancient objects. The ground floor rooms hold furniture, books and personal items the psychiatrist brought from Vienna.
When Sigmund Freud fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, he settled in this London house and lived here until his death in 1939. His daughter Anna Freud, also a psychoanalyst, stayed in the home until 1982 and later opened it as a museum.
The house carries the psychiatrist's name and keeps his study arranged as he left it when he worked here. Visitors walk past shelves lined with books by Goethe and Shakespeare and glass cases holding figures from Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Orient that he collected over decades.
The museum opens from Wednesday through Monday between 12:00 and 17:00, closing on Tuesdays. The rooms sit on the ground and first floors of a residential house in Hampstead, reachable by public transport.
The psychoanalytic couch in the study room is covered with Persian rugs where patients reclined during sessions in Vienna. The room also shows the chair where the therapist sat, usually out of sight of the reclining person.
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