Sigmund Freud Museum 2020

«Whatever makes for cultural development is working also against war.» (Sigmund Freud in a letter to Albert Einstein, 1932)

For half a century, Sigmund Freud lived and worked at Vienna’s Berggasse 19, before being forced to flee the Nazis into exile in London in 1938. It was here that he ran his world-famous practice, founding the new science of psychoanalysis and authoring his groundbreaking works.

Thanks to Freud’s importance as a twentieth-century pioneer, what began as a little commemorative site became a place of international fame: Since 1971, this historical building – Berggasse 19 – has been home to the Sigmund Freud Museum, that attracts more than 100,000 visitors from all over the world every year. Along with an extensive archive, the Museum also runs Europe’s biggest specialist library on psychoanalysis.

Now urgent action is required in order to preserve the Sigmund Freud Museum. After years of negotiations, with the aid of the City of Vienna and the Ministry of Culture the Sigmund Freud Museum now has the golden opportunity to save this unique cultural heritage and adapt it to meet international museum standards. To achieve this goal, we still need to raise 900,000 euros out of a total of just under 4 million euros. We hope to raise part of this sum – at least 80,000 euros – with your help in order to be able to carry out the necessary measures by 2020.

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https://www.freud-museum.at/

Interviewee: Waltz Christoph

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Language(s): German, English
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Producer: KA21 GmbH / CastYourArt
Production crew: Wolfgang Haas, Helmut Feier, Stefanie Hilgarth, Ariel Fernandez, Uschi Braun, Christof Waltz
Production country: Austria, Vienna