Freud Museum London
Freud Museum London
20 Maresfield Gardens
London
Greater London
NW3 5SX
England
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020 7435 2002
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020 7431 5452
Listed house in Hampstead where Sigmund Freud and his family lived after fleeing the Nazis in 1938. The Museum was founded in 1986. It has featured in numerous films and TV broadcasts and hosts regular exhibitions and events. It is available for hire for filming and evening functions.
Venue Type:
Museum, Archive, Gallery, Historic house or home
Additional info
Our library, study and research facilities are open by appointment only.
Sigmund Freud's large collection of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Oriental antiquities and his library. His study with the psychoanalytic couch preserve his working environment. A reference library, archive and picture library document the history of psychoanalysis.
Collection details
Archaeology, Archives, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Personalities, Social History
Key artists and exhibits
- Freud's couch; Dali portrait of Freud; Brouillet print of Charcot; Abu Simbel print; photographs of Yvette Guilbert, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Lou Andreas-Salome, Charcot, Freud family.
Calman meets Freud
- 5 February — 16 March 2014 *on now
Mel Calman (1931–1994) was best known for his cartoons on the front pages of The Times and The Sunday Times for many years. He had a gift for the pointed comment, for using his lugubrious, large-nosed, little man to bring a human, small-scale perspective to a large-scale issue. Calman was also fascinated by psychiatry, depression, and various sub-species of anxiety and doubt, as ever at his funniest on the darker side of life. Calman meets Freud will be a unique retrospective focusing on this most original – and entertaining - aspect of his work.
The exhibition will include some of the cartoonist's lesser known works, including examples from his book Dr Calman’s Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, classic love and marriage cartoons such as ‘But it’s my turn to leave you…’, drawings from the family's own private collection, and some of Calman’s brilliant double-decker cartoon strips, 'Couples', which he described as '...an attempt to explore the gap between what people say and what they think.'
The exhibition is curated by his daughters, writer and broadcaster Stephanie Calman, and novelist Claire Calman.
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
Adults: £6.00
Senior Citizens: £4.50
Concessions: £3.00
Website
http://www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/forthcoming/
Psychoanalysis after Freud
- 9 January — 27 March 2014 *on now
Psychoanalysis after Freud
6.30 - 8.30pm Thursdays 9 Jan - 27 Mar
12 week evening course
The course will offer an overview of the main developments in psychoanalysis since Freud, including Jung, Klein, Winnicott and Lacan. We will examine how the most creative figures in psychoanalysis changed and developed Freud's ideas and methods, and discuss their criticisms of his work.
No prior knowledge will be assumed and you will be guided by an experienced tutor with many years' teaching experience.
Tutor: Keith Barrett BA PhD Having received his PhD from the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, Dr Barrett specialises in both philosophy and psychoanalysis and has taught at several leading institutions, including Imperial College and Birkbeck College.
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
Adults £170, Members of the Museum £140, students/unwaged £110
Website
http://www.freud.org.uk/events/75356/psychoanalysis-after-freud/
The Examined Life: David Aaronovitch in conversation with Stephen Grosz.
- 27 March 2014 7-9pm
David Aaronovitch talks to psychoanalyst and author Stephen Grosz about his book The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves (Vintage).
‘Experience has taught me that our childhoods leave in us stories – stories we never found a way to voice, because no one around us helped us to find the words. When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us – we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.’ --The Examined Life
Stephen Grosz is a practicing psychoanalyst--he has worked with patients for more than twenty-five years. Born in America, educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Oxford University, he lives in London. The Examined Life has been translated into more than twenty languages and it has been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.
David Aaronovitch is a writer, broadcaster and commentator on culture, international affairs, politics and the media. He is a columnist for The Times. He has previously written for The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer, winning numerous awards, including Columnist of the Year 2003 and the 2001 Orwell prize for journalism. He is the author of Paddling to Jerusalem, which won the Madoc Prize for travel writing, and, more recently, Voodoo Histories, a book on the history and attraction of conspiracy theories.
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
£10/£7 Concessions and Museum Members
Website
http://freud.org.uk/events/75373/the-examined-life/
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