Freud Museum September 2024
This house in Finchley, London, was the final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis who lived here from September 1938 until his death in September 1939. Then his youngest daughter Anna Freud, a pioneering child psychoanalyst, lived here with her lifelong companion Dorothy Burlingham until their deaths in 1982 and 1979 respectively. It opened as a museum in 1986.
The red-brick double-fronted two-storey Edwardian house was a complete contrast to Freud’s apartment in Vienna where he had lived for the previous half century. Exhibitions told the story of the discovery of psychoanalysis and Freud’s study and iconic couch could be seen. The garden has been kept as Freud would have known it in 1939.
You could even buy a Begonia cutting from Freud's original plant.
For more information on Freud's house go to:
and; https://www.freud.org.uk/about-us/the-house/what-to-see-at-the-freud-museum/
Following the visit, Steve led a small group on a leisurely stroll around Belsize Park, taking in some of the other nearby "Blue Plaque" residences of famous personalities who lived here. These included the painter Mondrian, sculptor Henry Moore, pioneers of modern design Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, Richard Burton (nominated for 7 Oscars during his acting career), and Ramsay MacDonald, the first Labour Party Prime Minister .
