Wien IX, Berggasse 19. This is the address where Sigmund Freud lived for 47 years before he had to flee the Nazis in 1938. Since 1971, Sigmund Freud’s apartment and workplace has been home to the Sigmund Freud Museum that attracts more than 100,000 visitors from all over the world every year. In, 2020, the museum was renovated, expanded, and made wheelchair accessible. New exhibitions offer comprehensive information on the life and work of Freud. For the first time ever, all private rooms of the Freud family will be accessible including his “first” practice located on the upper ground floor.

Freud for the "little scamps"

Educational Program for 5- to 12-Year-Olds

Sigmund Freud lovingly referred to his children as "little scamps". With poems suitable for children, the life and work of the father of psychoanalysis are playfully explained at audio stations in the museum. A map with a sticker field helps the little explorers in their search for clues. Click for more information and to hear one of the poems.

Olaf Nicolai's installation Trauer und Melancholie (Mourning and Melancholia) is accessible at the Library of Psychoanalysis upon request .

Click here to browse through the online exhibition. It contains short films and interviews with five practicing psychoanalysts from New York, Dublin, and Berlin who introduce a variety of psychoanalytical schools: contemporary drive-, structure-  and conflict theory, structural psychoanalysis, relational psychoanalysis, object relation theories, as well as self-psychology.

Leitmotif for the program of the Sigmund Freud Museum. Monika Pessler, Director