Sächsisches Psychiatriemuseum

The Saxon Psychiatry Museum (Sächsisches Psychiatriemuseum) in Leipzig is devoted to the history of psychiatry in the Free State of Saxony. Housed in a city villa in the Zentrum-West district, it is run by the Durchblick association, whose members are people with firsthand experience of psychiatric care. Since it opened in 2001, the permanent exhibition has presented individual fates, medical careers, and institutional change. You can learn more about figures such as the court president Daniel Paul Schreber and the dialect poet Lene Voigt. The collection also sheds light on the therapeutic approaches of psychiatrists such as Hayner and Nitsche. Another focus is the development of the institutions themselves, from medieval hospitals to the large asylums and care facilities of the 19th century.