Freud Museum Annual Open Day - FREE admission This Thursday, the museum’s annual Open Day will celebrate the launch of the new Anna Freud room with house tours, special insight talks by curators as well as delicious cream teas and creative activities in the garden. The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead (at walking distance from The Charlotte Guest House) was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Austria following the Nazi annexation in 1938. It remained the family home until Anna Freud, the youngest daughter, died in 1982. The centrepiece of the museum is Freuds study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime. It contains Freuds remarkable collection of antiquities: Egyptian; Greek; Roman and Oriental. Almost 2,000 items fill cabinets and are arranged on every surface. There are rows of ancient figures on the desk where Freud wrote until the early hours of the morning. The walls are lined with shelves containing Freuds large library. Undoubtedly the most famous piece of furniture in all the collection is Freuds psychoanalytic couch, on which all of his patients reclined. The couch is remarkably comfortable and is covered with a richly coloured Iranian rug with chenille cushions piled on top. Other fine Oriental rugs, Heriz and Tabriz, cover the floor and tables. freud.org.uk/events/75633/freud-museum-annual-open-day-free-admission/
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