10 Facts About Freud Museum

1.

Freud Museum in London is a museum dedicated to Sigmund Freud, located in the house where Freud lived with his family during the last year of his life.

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2.

Freud Museum continued to work in London and it was here that he completed his 1939 book Moses and Monotheism.

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3.

Freud Museum maintained his practice in this home and saw a number of his patients for analysis.

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4.

Freud Museum was the subject of Part 2 of Richard Macer's 3 part BBC documentary series 'Behind the Scenes at the Freud Museum' in 2010.

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5.

Freud Museum is located at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, one of London's suburbs.

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6.

The first floor has a video room, Anna Freud Museum's room and there is a temporary exhibitions room which hosts alternate contemporary art and Freud Museum-themed exhibitions.

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7.

Many areas such as the kitchen and Anna Freud Museum's consulting room are out of public view and have been converted into offices.

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8.

Freud Museum was over eighty at this time, and he died the following year, but the house remained in his family until his youngest daughter Anna Freud Museum, who was a pioneer of child therapy, died in 1982.

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9.

The bookshelf behind Freud Museum's desk contains some of his favourite authors: not only Goethe and Shakespeare but Heine, Multatuli and Anatole France.

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10.

Freud Museum acknowledged that poets and philosophers had gained insights into the unconscious which psychoanalysis sought to explain systematically.

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