Sigmund Freud Museum

Sigmund Freud lived and practised at Berggasse 19 from 1891 until June 1938, when he was forced to flee Nazi-annexed Austria for London, dying in exile a year later. It was here, in the waiting room now open to visitors, that his famous Wednesday psychological discussion group first met, and here that he wrote The Interpretation of Dreams and much of the work that founded psychoanalysis.

The museum, founded in 1971, underwent a major renovation completed in 2020 that nearly doubled the exhibition space to around 550 square metres and — for the first time — opened the family's private rooms to visitors alongside the professional spaces. Freud's own furniture and the couch didn't survive his emigration (they went with him to London, where they remain at the Freud Museum there), so what's on display leans on photographs, letters, original doors and fittings, and a thoughtful reconstruction of the world he and his family inhabited.