Freud Museum
What Visitors Say
Had a wonderful time here. The staff are friendly and very helpful at the entrance. I got my ticket in advance and they only had to scan the qr code and give me my leaflet. The inside is absolutely fascinating and the videos that they show really changed how I saw their family. A bit hard to find as it looks just like an ordinary house besides the plaques at the front, but nonetheless a wonderful experience! Would definitely recommend if you're interested in psychology.
Very cozy and inspiring home! It’s unbelievable to think I got to see and visit the house of such a big name. Everything inside carried a piece of history. Freud was an amazing man, deeply passionate about the human psyche, and many of his theories are still used today to understand human psychology. I’m so happy I discovered this beautiful, warm, cozy home.I loved everything about this museum!
A lovely museum. Freud’s actual London home, down a leafy Hampstead street. Interesting to see the birth place of psychoanalysis. Freud’s study has such an interesting and peaceful energy to it. You can definitely spend a few hours there, and then peruse the gift shop.
Brilliant little museum full of treasures (including the famous Freudian couch) and a fantastic opportunity to visit a typical residential house of south Hampstead. Freud’s office looks nothing like a doctor’s office but more like an archeologist’s study and this gives it so much character.
Experiencing firsthand what has been my goal of study for the past four years was a surreal experience. The air of mysticism and revolution that the master of psychoanalysis left in the house during his final days is still felt. A highly recommended experience if you are interested in the history and life of Freud and his daughter, Anna.
Highlights
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
Opening Hours
Fun Facts
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.
