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Freud Museum London

Name: Freud Museum London
Address: 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW35SX, GB
Telephone: +442074352002
Price range: ££
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The extraordinary final home of Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna, pioneers of psychoanalysis.
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The Freud family settled here after fleeing Nazi persecution in Austria in 1938. The centrepiece of the Museum is Freud’s extraordinary study, containing his iconic psychoanalytic couch, countless books and antiquities. The Museum opened in 1986, since when it has developed an international reputation for its collections, research, conferences and contemporary art exhibitions.

30/08/2026

Coming up this November... 👇

In the second instalment of his Inner Torment course, Professor Salman Akhtar will examine four more profoundly dysphoric internal experiences and their devastating psychosocial consequences.

Each session will focus upon one such phenomenon and will offer illustrations from clinical experience, the literary realm, and day-to-day life. Each session will consist of a 60-minute talk and a 30-minute Q&A period, assuring a thorough engagement and participation by the audience.

📆 11 and 18 November, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
📍 Online course
🎫 Part 1 available as an additional purchase

Purchase your ticket for this course: freud.org.uk/event/inner-torment-part-ii-fear-hatred-envy-and-greed

28/08/2026

Mary Wild returns to the Freud Museum this September to uncover a roadmap of different routes through the same psychic terrain in some of Alfred Hitchcock's most famous films. Discussing Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), and The Birds (1963), this lecture will trace how desire, repression, and repetition organise his characters and iconic images, and ask what it means that a director so often accused of misogyny gave us some of cinema’s most unflinching portraits of what the patriarchy cannot tolerate.

📆 24 September, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
📍 Online
🎫 Freud Museum Members and Patrons receive a 20% discount on tickets

Book your ticket: freud.org.uk/event/projections-psychoanalysing-alfred-hitchcock

27/08/2026

📚 100 years after its first publication, the subtle complexities of Virginia Woolf’s ‘On Being Ill’ continue to resonate for a new generation of readers.

For this month's Afternoon Session, join writers Daisy Lafarge, Jude Cook and Ted Monroe alongside chair Lucy Davidson to discuss the drama of the body and mind, and hear readings from On Being Ill: New Edition, published with thirteen original pieces which outline new perspectives on illness, disability and care. All of our Afternoon Sessions are designed for you to drop in on your next Museum visit, allowing you to explore Freud's final home and discover a new topic included in your admission ticket.

📆 17 September, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
📍In-house event
🎫 Tickets included in your Museum admission ticket

Find out more: freud.org.uk/event/freuds-afternoon-session-on-being-ill

26/08/2026

Today is International Dog Day... a day we're sure Sigmund Freud would celebrate.🐕

Freud was very much a dog person, and owned dogs since at least the 1920s. When the 82-year-old Sigmund Freud arrived in England as a refugee from the N**is in 1938, he was accompanied not just by his immediate family but also by his beloved Chow, Lun, who had to spend the following six months in quarantine in West London.

There's also a popular rumour that Freud's dogs would accompany him during psychoanalysis sessions with patients - no timer or clock was needed, as the dogs would simply get up and leave the room when an hour was up.

Freud also spent time with his daughter Anna, translating Marie Bonaparte's book 'Topsy'. He was so moved that he wrote to Bonaparte to praise the book, saying: 'Often when stroking Jo-Fi I have caught myself humming a melody which, unmusical as I am, I can’t help recognising as the aria from Don Giovanni: “A bond of friendship Unites us both…”'

Did you know that you can also take your very own Jofi home? Not just for children, this soft plush is the perfect companion for your home or even your office. Shop now online or in the Museum shop.

Sigmund Freud and his Chow in Vienna, 1931
Sigmund and Anna Freud with Anna's dog Wolf, c.1930
Sigmund Freud with Jofi in Grinzing, Vienna, 1937
Sigmund Freud with Jofi in Vienna, 1930s
Jofi plush, seen in Sigmund Freud's study

25/08/2026

Busy this Autumn? Now you are. Our Autumn programme has just arrived and is now booking on our website.

Swipe to see a selection of what's on at the Freud Museum this Autumn and discover the entire programme on our website: freud.org.uk/whats-on

24/08/2026

The Freudian Research Seminar Series returns for 2026/27!

Our Autumn series schedule has just landed... 👉

Wednesday 30th September - Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi, The Dead That Answer Back: Conversational AI, Mourning and the Production of Posthumous Presence

Thursday 29th October - Panos Liakos, The Architecture of the Unconscious: Technology, Domestic Fantasy, and the Uncanny in Kane Parson’s 'Backrooms

Wednesday 25th November - Adam Field, Capital, Delay, Body: Laura Mulvey’s Freud

Thursday 10th December - Haroula Ntalla, Psychoanalysis in the Digital Era

Discover new insights, fascinating research, and illuminating discussions of Freud's work and the continued relevance of psychoanalysis across modern society from a variety of speakers in this year's seminar series. Book your pay-what-you-can tickets on our website: freud.org.uk/whats-on

All proceeds support our mission to share the stories and preserve the legacies of Sigmund and Anna Freud.

22/08/2026

The Freud family made their home in Příbor, Vienna, and London through the years - but they also spent many summers in the village of Walberswick in Suffolk. Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham had a weekend retreat in the village from as early as the 1940s, and several other members of the Freud family own or have owned holiday homes in the area.

Our archives are filled with memories of Walberswick through the eyes of Anna and Dorothy, and we've selected a few of our favourites.

Various videos from Anna Freud, Dorothy Burlingham, and friends in Walberswick
Photo of Anna Freud in Walberswick
Photo of Anna Freud, Dorothy Burlingham, and Grete Bibring in Walberswick
Photo of Anna Freud on horseback in Walberswick
Watercolour painting of cottages in Walberswick
Photo of Little House, Walberswick
Photo of Anna Freud weaving in Walberswick
Embossing stamp belonging to Anna Freud with detail of embossed address in Walberswick

20/08/2026

As part of our 40th anniversary celebrations at the Freud Museum, the Brazilian Friends Circle is partnering with the ESPE Institute - a Brazilian institution dedicated to the teaching of psychoanalysis - for a live discussion with guests Alexandre Simões, Marcelo Veras, and Eva Bruckner, using the documentary "Freud, Psychoanalysis and Us" as a starting point.

This illuminating discussion will allow participants to reflect on the relevance of psychoanalysis today and on the ways in which Freud's thought continues to illuminate central issues of contemporary culture and society.

Produced in collaboration with Freud Museum London and the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, and directed by psychoanalyst Alexandre Simões, the documentary was filmed between Vienna and London and explores significant locations in Sigmund Freud's life.

📆 12 September 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm (UK time)/10:00 am - 11:30 am (Brazil time)
📍 Online, in Portuguese
🎫 Tickets include free access to watch the documentary on-demand

Purchase your ticket: freud.org.uk/event/freud-a-psicanalise-e-nos-um-debate-online-ao-vivo-a-partir-do-documentario

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Como parte das comemorações dos 40 anos do Freud Museum, o Círculo dos Amigos Brasileiros, em parceria com o Instituto ESPE, instituição brasileira dedicada ao ensino da psicanálise, promove um debate ao vivo com os convidados Alexandre Simões, Marcelo Veras e Eva Bruckner, tendo como ponto de partida o documentário "Freud, a psicanálise e nós".

Este encontro permitirá aos participantes refletir sobre a relevância da psicanálise nos dias de hoje e sobre as formas pelas quais o pensamento de Freud continua a iluminar questões centrais da cultura e da sociedade contemporânea.

Produzido em colaboração com o Freud Museum London e o Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, e dirigido pelo psicanalista Alexandre Simões, o documentário foi filmado entre Viena e Londres e explora lugares significativos da vida de Sigmund Freud.

📆 12 de setembro de 2026, das 14h às 15h30 (horário do Reino Unido) / das 10h às 11h30 (horário do Brasil)
📍 Online, em português
🎫 Os ingressos incluem acesso gratuito ao documentário para assistir sob demanda.

Adquira seu ingresso em nosso site.

19/08/2026

Our anniversary exhibition, '40 Objects, 40 Years' is open to the public today! 🎉

Telling the story of Sigmund Freud and his family, their lives, and our mission to preserve their legacies, '40 Objects, 40 Years' brings together some of Freud's most famous antiquities and belongings to be seen up close, alongside personal family affects and items from our archives never publicly displayed before. Each object has been hand-picked by a member of our community, including writers, psychoanalysts, and public figures, with their reflections on every item unlocking this extraordinary collection.

Entry to '40 Objects, 40 Years' is included in your Museum admission ticket.

'40 Objects, 40 Years' is curated by Bryony Davies, Curator at Freud Museum London

📆 On view 19 August 2026 - 14 February 2027
📍 Freud Museum London, 20 Maresfield Gardens

Find out more: freud.org.uk/exhibitions/40-objects-40-years

14/08/2026

The language of psychoanalysis proliferates in modernist literature. Reading key psychoanalytic texts alongside the works of Mann, Proust, Joyce and others, in this three-week online course, we'll uncover how Freud’s discoveries helped to animate the innovations in both form and content that mark this period of literature.

📆 Begins Tuesday 15 September, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
📍 Online with Research Manager Tom DeRose
🎥 All attendees receive course recordings

Book your place on this course on our website - tickets are limited: freud.org.uk/event/freud-and-modernism

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20 Maresfield Gardens
London
NW35SX

Opening Hours

Wednesday	10:30am - 5pm
Thursday	10:30am - 5pm
Friday	10:30am - 5pm
Saturday	10:30am - 5pm
Sunday	10:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+442074352002

Website

https://www.freud.org.uk/

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