20 Maresfield Gardens
A Guide to the Freud Museum

All of his life Freud was an avid art-collector. 20 Maresfield Gardens is a museum which contains his collection, the couch his patients reclined on and many unique documents relating to Sigmund and Anna Freud and the history of psychoanalysis. This guide to Freud is written by the curators of the Freud Museum.

Fleeing from the Nazis, Freud arrived in London in June 1938. He moved into 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, London and lived there with his family until his death in September 1939. All of his life Freud was an avid art-collector. 20 Maresfield Gardens is now a museum which contains his collection, the couch his patients reclined on and many unique documents relating to Sigmund and Anna Freud and the history of psychoanalysis. Written by the curators of the Freud Museum, "20 Maresfield Gardens" is an essential guide to the mind of the founder of psychoanalysis and one of the essential thinkers of the twentieth century.