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The creator of the theory of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, more than eighty years old, together with his wife and daughter Anna in 1938, with great difficulty left Vienna (Austria), fleeing Nazi persecution, and settled in London, in a quiet, cozy and pretty pretty area of ​​Hampstead, at Marsfield Gardens, 20, where he spent the last year (from 1938 to 1939) of his life.

This year was the hardest for Freud, as he had long suffered from cancer jaw, and the disease was at the last stage, the pain was already stronger and more painful. And Sigmund, after making a decision, asked his friend-doctor, with the consent of Anna's daughter, to inject him with a lethal dose of morphine.
Freud's London Museum is a member of the London Museum of Health and Medicine.

Krasnokibrychny three-story house and a garden in a quiet street of Merisfield Gardens, which remained the property of the family, after the death of a great psychoanalyst, before his death in 1982, his younger daughter Anna Freud (also a psychoanalyst, only a child), who made a huge contribution to the development of children's therapy, became the Freud House Museum and, at the same time, dovatelskim center. A monument to Freud, created by Oscar Nemon, was erected close to him at the corner of Belsay Lane and Fitzgions Avenue.

Going to immigration, the family took almost all the furniture from Vienna to Vienna (cabinets, tables, wonderful Biedermeier trunks, Austrian country furniture of the 18-19th centuries) and, of course, books carefully preserved by the descendants of Freud. And now they are in the museum, in a solid library with a lot of volumes where Zygmund himself hung photos and pictures on the walls.

Sigmund Freud is a great founder of the theory of psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud, a doctor who at one time was treated almost entirely European nobility, had some weaknesses, he was a passionate collector and an equally passionate smoker. He collected a magnificent collection of antiques (works of art from Rome, Ancient Greece, Egypt), which is now represented in the museum. This includes the desk, behind which the famous doctor wrote in the morning.

In the office where he was taking, while still in a position, patients, pondering, writing, enjoying the view of the blooming garden from the French window, and where euthanasia occurred, all as it was during the life of Freud, thanks to the efforts of her daughter. Anna also kept everything in the garden in the same way as it was with her father: roses, hydrangeas, clematis, almond trees and plums the ones that the dying Freud saw. Only the pine has grown very much since then ...

Freud Museum gives the impression of a nice and cozy family home. Here you can see a unique exhibit - a real famous couch with a raised head and pillows, covered with a chic Iranian carpet. Zigmund Freud's patients reclined during psychoanalytic sessions. And behind the couch, behind the patient (the psychoanalyst was very disliked when he looked directly into the eyes), there is a Freud's green chair in which he listened to his patients.

This couch was presented to the doctor in 1890 by one of his grateful patients. The museum also has a historically valuable portrait of Freud, created by the great Salvador Dali.

On the second floor in the room of Freud's daughter, who followed in science behind her father, visitors will see furniture and a loom belonging to Anna.

Unfortunately, House -Museum of Freud is not suitable for visiting his disabled. And one more inconvenience - all the information in the museum in English. Tired after seeing the last refuge of the great scientist, you can sit down on a snack in the garden. In the shop at the museum, Freud's books on Freud and Freud and various small things are being sold.

Freud's London Museum - a member of the London Museum of Health and Medicine Association - was previously known to people interested in psychoanalysis, but today, due to the growing interest in the world psychoanalyst, the museum has become a kind of pilgrimage site for intelligent people who worship this topic and its author-creator

How to get there

Address: Maresfield Gardens, 20. By metro, go to Finchley Road station, via a few blocks up the hill hoditsya museum itself. You can also get by buses No. 13, 82, 113, 187, 268 and by train to Finchley Road, Frognal railway stations.

Working time

The museum can be visited five days a week: from Wednesday to Sunday from 12:00 to 17 : 00. Weekends on Monday and Tuesday.

Ticket price

Ticket + audio guide - 8 GBP, for children under 12 years old admission is free.