Freud Museum
Sigmund Freud’s final home in Hampstead is preserved around his study and world-famous couch, brought from Vienna in 1938. Books crowd the walls; antiquities sit like a private pantheon, showing how myth and archaeology fed his thinking. Upstairs rooms trace flight from Nazism and the afterlife of psychoanalysis through Anna Freud. Small but potent—allow 60–75 minutes, and expect a hush more like a library than a museum.
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What's not to miss inside?
Freud’s Study & Couch
The room where the method became a placeA Persian rug, low light, and shelves of gods and monsters—therapy staged as a voyage inward.
📍 Ground floor, rear study
Library Walls
Freud read like a scientist-poetGoethe to archaeology journals—ideas cross-pollinate on every shelf.
📍 Ground floor, study and hall
Anna Freud
Child analysis and a life of carePhotos, papers and objects sketch a second act that shaped how we think about childhood.
📍 First floor rooms
Temporary Exhibitions
Psychoanalysis meets contemporary artArtists and analysts in dialogue—dreams, symbols and satire in modern materials.
📍 Rotating spaces
Inspire your Friends
- Freud’s couch made the journey from Vienna to London in 1938 during his escape from the Nazis—rug and all.
- The study holds around two thousand antiquities—Egyptian, Greek, Roman—arranged by Freud himself as a ‘working imagination’ of myths and mind.
- Anna Freud lived in the house until 1982; the museum opened soon after, keeping the rooms largely as the family left them.
