Freud museum

Sigmund Freud Museum

The home of Sigmund Freud at the Berggasse 19 in the 9th District (Alsergrund) is without any question the best known place in Vienna connected to Sigmund Freud.

Sigmund Freud lived with his family in the house from 1891 to june 1938 when he felt he could no longer stay in Vienna due to the Nazi pressure against the Viennese Jewish community after the German invasion of Austria in march 1938 (the so-called ‘Anschluss’).

It is the place where Freud lived with his wife, Martha Bernays, his daughters Mathilde and Anna , his sons Martin , Oliver and Ernst and also his sister in law, Minna Bernays.

Today it is the central Freud Museum. Displaying a permanent exposition of the rooms where Sigmund Freud lived and worked and which are fully decorated with pictures regarding the life and works of Sigmund Freud.
Besides the permanent exposition there are temporary expositions and lectures held. It is also home of the most comprehensive library on Freud and psychoanalysis.

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The Sigmund Freud Tour Wien

The Sigmund Freud Tour Vienna together with a visit to the Museum provides the most in-depth insight look into the life and works of Prof. Dr. Sigmund Freud in Viennna.

One can only fully understand and comprehend the works and innovations of Freud through the background of the seemingly timeless, bourgeois atmosphere of the Vienna at the ‘Belle Epoque’-period and of the Alsergrund in particular.

The tour covers more than 20 places and buildings connected to Freud which are referred to in different biographical works on Sigmund Freud (Brückes Institut, the lecture places of Freud, the General Hospital, the homes of some patients, e.g. Anna O., Dora,…)

The purpose of the tour is to let you feel the spirit of Freud in the background his works. Psychoanalysis is not only theory and practice. To fully understand it one must know the particular time and place at which it originated.
This is what the tour will let you discover, ​

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