Saxon Museum of Psychiatry, Medical history museum in Leipzig, Germany

The Saxon Psychiatric Museum (Sächsisches Psychiatriemuseum) is a small museum in Leipzig's Zentrum-West district, run by the Durchblick association of people with psychiatric experience. Its special exhibitions trace individual fates, careers and institutions: the lives of court president Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911) and dialect poet Lene Voigt (1891–1962), the biographies and therapeutic concepts of psychiatrists such as Christian August Fürchtegott Hayner (1775–1837) and Hermann Paul Nitsche (1876–1948), and the development of psychiatric institutions from the medieval Hospital St. Georg to the Sonnenstein, Thonberg and Dösen asylums.

The museum was founded in 2000 by Durchblick, an association of people with experience of psychiatry, and is run by that association. Its permanent exhibition, catalogued by Thomas R. Müller in 2014, traces Saxon psychiatry from the medieval Hospital St. Georg through the Sonnenstein, Thonberg and Dösen institutions to the end of the 20th century.

The displays show how psychiatric treatment was understood in Saxony and how patients expressed their experiences through artwork. Visitors encounter personal stories of people who lived in the institution alongside portraits of doctors who spent their careers there.

The museum is in the Zentrum-West district of Leipzig and is run by the Durchblick association, a group of people with psychiatric experience. The premises are not wheelchair accessible. The permanent exhibition is documented in a catalogue published by Mabuse-Verlag in 2014, which visitors can consult for the background to the displays.

The museum is run by Durchblick, an association of people who have themselves experienced psychiatric care, which shapes how the history is presented. Its special exhibitions pair individual fates with institutions, from the medieval Hospital St. Georg to the Sonnenstein, Thonberg and Dösen institutions.