The Freud Museum is one of the most famous tourist attractions in London; a surprisingly humble and small home in a residential area (I walked past it five times before seeing the museum sign). Due to Sigmund Freud's notoriety as a psychoanalyst, I was expecting the usual type of warehouse or gallery converted into an homage to Freud. Instead I was faced with what was somebody's home, covered in rugs, framed photographs and trinkets.
Of course, the main focus of the house was the famous couch, where patients were seen and analysed. All over the house, extracts from Freud's essays, journals and letters were printed out and put next to photographs of his family and colleagues.
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