Year 2025 in the Freud Museum: humanity and the shadows of the past

Year 2025 in the Freud Museum: humanity and the shadows of the past

Berggasse, 1090 Wien, Österreich - In 2024, the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna proved to be a real magnet for visitors. The director Monika Pessler reported on the resounding success of the exhibition "The eerie. Sigmund Freud and Art", which contributed significantly to the increasing number of visitors. This proves the great interest in Freud's work and his connection to art. The museum also has exciting topics for 2025: The annual theme will deal with the "humanity" and includes, among other things, an online exhibition and the special exhibition "The Freud. Documents of Injustice", which presents new archive finds on the expulsion and annihilation of Freud's family. Already on May 6, 2025, on Freud's birthday, the renowned South African writer and Nobel Prize for Literature J.M. Coetzee will give the Sigmund Freud lecture, which further upgrades the year. An exciting year in the Freud Museum announces that the past and their social psychological effects are dealing.

The focus on absence

A central point of the new exhibitions in the museum is the concept of absence. This topic is not only considered metaphorically, but also in the sense of a connection between the inner and outer world. The curators of the Sigmund Freud Museum have targeted empty rooms and historical photographs to visually illustrate the Freud family's flight from the National Socialists in 1938. This artistic decision enables visitors to understand the history and the associated emotional experiences. The ability to link individual events from the past with the present is considered essential for understanding human psyche. The exhibition aims to sharpen the awareness of the absence and loss and invites visitors to deal intensively with these topics, such as Freud-museum and report.

With this unique link between historical elements and contemporary exhibitions, the Sigmund Freud Museum becomes not only a place of commemoration, but also to a room in which the audience can explore the profound questions of being human. The modifications of the museum, which have been carried out since the extensive renovation in 2020, are marked by the goal of reaching visitors emotionally and intellectually and immersing them in the fascinating world of Sigmund Freud.