Birth house of Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis museum in Příbor, Czech Republic.
The two-story corner house at Zámečnická 117 in Příbor, with a smithy on the ground floor, was built in the first quarter of the 19th century. The Freud family rented the upper floor above the smithy. A life-size copper reproduction of Freud's couch stands in front of the entrance.
The two-storey corner house was built in the first quarter of the 19th century at Zámečnická 117, near the former town walls. In the 1850s Jakob Freud, a wool trader, rented the upper floor above a smithy, and Sigmund was born there on 6 May 1856; the family left in 1859. The city bought the house in 2006 and opened the museum on 27 May 2006.
The 2021 permanent exhibition was designed by Jane McAdam Freud, the psychoanalyst's great-granddaughter, who died before it opened. It treats the mind itself as a kind of museum, with the rooms devoted to the Ego, Superego and Id. A life-size copper reproduction of Freud's couch stands in front of the entrance.
The museum is located in the center of Příbor and can be reached on foot. Wear comfortable shoes since the old staircase in the house is narrow and steep.
The room where Freud was born is not documented with certainty; it is assumed to have been the one next to today's museum library, where maps and photographs of Příbor at the time of his birth are displayed. The street, called Schlossergasse then, was renamed Freudova ulice in his honour after his death in London.
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