Sigmund Freud Museum

Waiting room (c) Hertha Hurnaus, Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung

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Freud for the "little scamps". Presentation of the new education program for children

Thu, 4. November 2021 18:00–19:30,

Museum open on 26.10. and 1.11.!

From Tuesday 26.10. to Monday 1.11., we are daily open from 10-18 h. Please notice our COVID-19 regulations for your visit to the museum. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation!

Berggasse 19

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.

Exhibition view "Analysis Interminable" (c) Sigmund Freud Foundation

Analysis Interminable. Psychoanalytical Schools of Thought after Freud

The special exhibition currently on display - titled Analysis Interminable. Psychoanalytic Schools of Thought after Freud - contains short films and interviews with five practicing psychoanalysts from New York, Dublin, and Berlin who introduce a variety of psychoanalytical schools: contemporary drive and conflict theory, structural psychoanalysis, relational psychoanalysis, object relation theories, as well as self-psychology. The exhibition was curated by psychoanalyst and philosopher Esther Hutfless. - Only until 1.11.2021!

Sticker map cover: Freud for the "little scamps". A children's education program for 5- to 12-year-olds (c) Sigmund Freud Foundation

Education program for children

Starting November 5, 2021

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.

Organized Escape - Survival in Exile. Viennese Psychoanalysis 1938 and Beyond

Special Exhibition

From November 12, 2021, at the Sigmund Freud Museum. Learn more ...

Video Tour with Director Monika Pessler

Talk with Philippe Sands and Esther Freud

Foyer (c) Hertha Hurnaus, Sigmund Freud Foundation

Sigmund Freud Museum awarded the Bauherrenpreis

The renovation of the Sigmund Freud Museum has been awarded the Bauherrenpreis, the annual award of Austrian Society of Architects.

Together with the architects Hermann Czech, ARTEC/Bettina Götz and Richard Manahl as well as Walter Angonese we are happy about this recognition. Currently, the nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Prize for Contemporary Architecture by the EU is active.

Sigmund Freud: Mourning and Melancholia in bilingual edition (German/Arabic). Olaf Nicolai

Olaf Nicolai: Trauer und Melancholie

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

Online Exhibition: Analysis Interminable. Psychoanalytical Schools of Thought after Freud

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.

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Frei Sprechen - Speak Freely

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

Hidden Thoughts of a Visual Nature

In Freud's 'first practice', the exhibition Hidden Thoughts of a Visual Nature shows works form the museum's collection of conceptual art, thus making references between psychoanalysis and the arts.