Casa Museo Freud

The Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna is located at Berggasse 19 in the Alsergrund district, the place where the founder of psychoanalysis lived and worked from 1891 until his emigration in 1938. In the original rooms of his former practice and private apartment, visitors learn about the history of psychoanalysis as well as Freud's life and work. Since opening in 1971, the museum has documented this era, although most of the original furnishings, including the famous couch, are now at the Freud Museum in London. Vienna, however, still displays numerous original pieces from Freud's possession, including objects from his collection of antiquities, which consists mainly of small statues.

After the "Anschluss," Freud had to flee to London with his daughter Anna, where he died in 1939. Under the Nazi regime, the building in Vienna was turned into a "Judensammelwohnung," a communal apartment where Jews were forced to live before deportation. Today, in addition to the historic living and working quarters, the museum includes an extensive library, considered Europe's largest research library on psychoanalysis, as well as a research institute. A particular highlight is the exhibition space on the ground floor, which once housed the headquarters of a kosher butcher shop. Installations by contemporary artists on themes related to psychoanalysis are presented here at irregular intervals.

A major expansion in 2019 and 2020 significantly increased the museum's exhibition space, so that the entire second floor (the first floor in European numbering), including previously inaccessible parts of the apartment, is now open to visitors. The museum thus offers a deep insight into the psychologist's world and, through rotating special exhibitions, shows the lasting influence of psychoanalysis on art and society. As part of the Sigmund Freud Private Foundation, the site is a central destination for anyone interested in the history of modern psychology.