Freud Museum London

Discover Freud's theory of dreams in our latest learning resource!

Only two weeks to go until 'Syrian Delights' our pop-up food event - not to be missed!
Delicious Syrian food and music in Freud's garden - with all the proceeds go to the Welcome Programme, a project that supports the integration of newly-arrived Syrian families >>

*drum roll* today's winner of the most dedicated visitor to the Museum prize goes to... this chap - what a superb tattoo!

Artist Elena Cologni is returning to the Freud Museum for an active engagement of her sculptural work followed by a discussion with author Susan Buckingham. Join us in the Museum garden 15 September for Intraplaces: Dialogues Without Words >

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The Freud Museum is proud to host an evening of Syrian cuisine & music in partnership with the Welcome Programme charity, which supports the integration of newly-arrived Syrian families. Book your place for this wonderful evening of Syrian Delights >

How might psychoanalysis and psychotherapy work for #refugees in 2018? Sheila Melzak, Director of Baobab Centre for Young Survivors will address this in her keynote speech at Psychoanalysis & Exile: 1938-2018, 8 Sept >> https://www.freud.org.uk/ev…/psychoanal ysis-exile-1938-2018/

The Freud Museum London opened #onthisday in 1986! In honour of our 32nd birthday, we have some exclusive signed prints for sale from Cornelia Parker, Susan Hiller, Claes Oldenburg, Paul Wunderlich and Joseph Kosuth. All proceeds go to helping improve the future of the Freud Museum >> shop.freud.org.uk

Start the week with a visit to the Freud Museum London. We're open on Mondays 12-5pm, as well as our usual opening hours throughout the summer and will go through until the end of September, except for the August Bank Holiday >>

Lisa Appignanesi discusses her new book, ‘Everyday Madness: on Grief, Anger, Loss and Love’ (September 2018) with Adam Phillips.
‘The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over a year it had sat on the shower shelf where he had left it. I looked at it every day.’
After the death of her partner of thirty-two years, Lisa Appignanesi was thrust into a state striated by rage and superstition in which san...ity felt elusive. The dead of prior generations loomed large and haunting. Then, too, the cultural and political moment seemed to collude with her condition: everywhere people were dislocated and angry.
In this electrifying and brave examination of an ordinary enough death and its aftermath, Appignanesi uses all her evocative and analytic powers to scrutinize her own and our society’s experience of grieving, the effects of loss and the potent, mythical space it occupies in our lives.
With searing honesty, lashed by humour, she navigates us onto the terrain of childhood, the way it forms our feelings of love and hate, and steers us towards a less tumultuous version of the everyday.
This book may be short, but life, death, madness, love, and grandchildren, are all there seen through the eyes of a writer who is ever aware of the historical and current vagaries of woman’s condition.
‘Appignanesi luminously conveys the wayward emotions that make bereavement a language that is hard to understand, yet speaks to us every day when we experience a great loss. You will find all of life in this rewarding, scholarly and entertaining conversation about freedom, Freud, fury, enduring love, and how mythic and modern families haunt each other’ Deborah Levy
‘Wonderful, moving, extraordinary. It is sui generis. I feel enormously privileged to have read it – twice. Its structure is remarkable – an enacting of the last two years. Bravo bravo’ Edmund de Waal
Lisa Appignanesi has been a university lecturer in European Studies and was Chair of the Freud Museum London. Her works of non-fiction include ‘Freud’s Women’ (with John Forrester), a biographical portrait of Simone de Beauvoir, and a history of cabaret. She has edited ‘The Rushdie File’ and a number of books on contemporary culture, as well as producing various films for television. Lisa Appignanesi lives in London with her two children.
Adam Phillips is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books, the Observer and the New York Times, and he is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations. His most recent book is In Writing and he recently curated an exhibition, The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined, at the Barbican, London.
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18 July - 30 September 2018.
Featuring original documents, letters and objects, many of which have never been on public display before, this major new exhibition will reveal the stories of Freud’s and his family’s escape and exile. Key items include the original documents required for Freud and his family to leave Nazi-occupied Austria and enter Britain, Freud’s personal correspondence – including with celebrated figures such as Albert Einstein and H.G. Wells – and personal b...elongings.
Through the experiences of Freud and his family threads a universal story of flight and exile. Britain remains a refuge for many fleeing persecution, torture, enslavement and murder. At the center of the exhibition will be the voices of young people who attend the Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile through work they have created in collaboration with the artist Barnaby Barford. Each young person has come to Britain, unaccompanied, to seek refuge and safety.
The exhibition includes the first public display of The Psychoanalyst by Marie-Louise von Motesiczky a generous gift from the Marie-Louise Motesiczky Foundation. The Museum is very pleased to add this painting from one of ‘Austria’s most important 20th-century painters’ to its collections.
https://www.freud.org.uk/…/leaving-toda y-the-freuds-in-exi…/
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Hear Leonie Ansems de Vries, from Dept of War Studies at Kings College, discuss her current research with migrants & refugees in France and the UK at our conference Psychoanalysis & Exile: 1938-2018 >

Hear child & adolescent psychotherapist and Director of the Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile, Sheila Melzak, discuss her work with young survivors at Freud Museum's day conference Psychoanalysis & Exile: 1938-2018, 8 Sept >

Freud wrote to his friend Arnold Zweig: "Leaving today for 39 Elsworthy Road, NW3..." Our exhibition 'Leaving Today: the Freuds in Exile 1938' is now open. Explore our range of 'Leaving Today' products honouring this exquisite exhibition, only available from the Freud Museum Shop > shop.freud.org.uk

Our September conference explores the promises and pitfalls of psychoanalytic engagement with psychosis.
A fundraiser conference for the Psychosis Therapy Project

80 years ago today, the Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí visited Freud in London. He produced this sketch of Freud from their meeting, declaring "Freud's cranium is a snail!" It is on permanent display at the Freud Museum London.

The temporary interactive experience "A Mile in My Shoes" by the Empathy Museum has been such a nice addition to our exhibition "Leaving Today: The Freuds in Exile 1938". Visitors (including our Deputy Director in the second photo) have loved the opportunity to hear stories by migrants whilst literally walking a mile in the shoes of the storytellers. It's only here til Monday, so why not pop by this weekend?

An evening marking the generous gift to the Freud Museum London of the painting 'Psychoanalyst’ by artist Marie-Louise von Motesiczky from the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust, with a drinks reception followed by a talk by art historian, Ines Schlenker.
Born into a prominent Jewish family in Vienna in 1906, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky left Austria the day after the Anschluss and eventually settled in London. This talk traces her artistic career – from promising be...ginnings to the struggle of rebuilding a reputation in exile – and explores the Motesiczky family’s numerous connections with psychoanalysis.
Ines Schlenker is an independent art historian with a special interest in National Socialist, degenerate and émigré art. She wrote the catalogue raisonné of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky’s paintings, published in 2009, and co-edited the painter’s correspondence with the writer Elias Canetti. Her book on the artist Milein Cosman will be published later this year.
Part of an exciting series of events that coincide with the exhibition Leaving Today: the Freuds in Exile 1938, on display from 18 July – 30 September 2018.
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Step into the Freud Museum and discover the world of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, who came here in 1938 after fleeing Nazi-occupied Vienna.

Very informative, great to so many people enjoying the museum. Definitely will be visiting again

The museum is in a fabulous location (leafy hampstead). It is hidden away slightly, symbolic perhaps of the unconscious. It is rich in ambience and you get a real sense of Freud as a person and the rest of his family. In particular, his daughter who later became a famous child psychologist. A lot of love and attention goes into maintaining the house. I would highly recommend a visit. It is £9 for an adult entry, but what's great is that the ticket is valid for a whole year.

It's like stepping back in time to 1938-39. I loved the sight of Freud's couch, his antique statues and even his cigar. The upstairs area dedicated to his daughter and successor Anna Freud was also remarkable. The museum is a wonderful tribute to the founder of psychoanalysis.

I was here for the launch of my friend's book on music therapy in forensic settings. Very appropriate. As a psychotherapist (not Freudian), I found the sight of his clinical rooms with the couch and his chair, quite moving. His curious and restless mind is evident in every object that fills the shelves and surfaces of tables. Well worth a visit.

I take my psychology sixth form students there on a trip each year and it is always a great day out wit them!

I found this place after doing a searching through the Internet and decided to venture off.

As a psychology and psychiatry lover , being able to walk into the last home of Freud was incredibly awe-inspiring. I very much appreciated all the little aspects included and was thrilled to find the place.

If you have an interest in Freud, definitely stop by. It's a great short trip if you are in the area. Not all people may enjoy this venue because it is small and only touches on Freud and his daughter, in which not every one may find interest

Freud's home/museum is a wonderful place where you can feel from the very first moment you step in the ambience that surrounded this family. There is a great portion of the family's furniture, Dr. Freud's psychanalytical bureau with the famous chair and part of his well-known library and art collection. Also Dr. Anna Freud's bureau and personal belongings. Definitely a must seen point of interest and culture.

Freud museum is fabulous !!!! It keeps properly all of Freud & family’s belongings that were brought from Austria: furniture as the coach, chair, table, and everything else, Freud’s books, art collections, pictures, personal belonging ... we come to see the house he bought in England to die free, were Anna Freud lived a long life and then left to be the museum

An afternoon well spent. Would have preferred more information regarding his theories and ideologies than just the immigration story. The tour though was well detailed around his final year... recommend do a bit of background research and then go to the Museum.

Very informative, great to so many people enjoying the museum. Definitely will be visiting again

The museum is in a fabulous location (leafy hampstead). It is hidden away slightly, symbolic perhaps of the unconscious. It is rich in ambience and you get a real sense of Freud as a person and the rest of his family. In particular, his daughter who later became a famous child psychologist. A lot of love and attention goes into maintaining the house. I would highly recommend a visit. It is £9 for an adult entry, but what's great is that the ticket is valid for a whole year.

It's like stepping back in time to 1938-39. I loved the sight of Freud's couch, his antique statues and even his cigar. The upstairs area dedicated to his daughter and successor Anna Freud was also remarkable. The museum is a wonderful tribute to the founder of psychoanalysis.

I was here for the launch of my friend's book on music therapy in forensic settings. Very appropriate. As a psychotherapist (not Freudian), I found the sight of his clinical rooms with the couch and his chair, quite moving. His curious and restless mind is evident in every object that fills the shelves and surfaces of tables. Well worth a visit.

I take my psychology sixth form students there on a trip each year and it is always a great day out wit them!

I found this place after doing a searching through the Internet and decided to venture off.

As a psychology and psychiatry lover , being able to walk into the last home of Freud was incredibly awe-inspiring. I very much appreciated all the little aspects included and was thrilled to find the place.

If you have an interest in Freud, definitely stop by. It's a great short trip if you are in the area. Not all people may enjoy this venue because it is small and only touches on Freud and his daughter, in which not every one may find interest

Freud's home/museum is a wonderful place where you can feel from the very first moment you step in the ambience that surrounded this family. There is a great portion of the family's furniture, Dr. Freud's psychanalytical bureau with the famous chair and part of his well-known library and art collection. Also Dr. Anna Freud's bureau and personal belongings. Definitely a must seen point of interest and culture.

Freud museum is fabulous !!!! It keeps properly all of Freud & family’s belongings that were brought from Austria: furniture as the coach, chair, table, and everything else, Freud’s books, art collections, pictures, personal belonging ... we come to see the house he bought in England to die free, were Anna Freud lived a long life and then left to be the museum

An afternoon well spent. Would have preferred more information regarding his theories and ideologies than just the immigration story. The tour though was well detailed around his final year... recommend do a bit of background research and then go to the Museum.