Sigmund Freud's Collection: An Archaeology of the Mind

Sigmund Freud’s Collection: An Archaeology of the Mind

An exhibition of Egyptian, Greek, Italian, and Chinese antiquities from the private collection of Sigmund Freud – together with photographs taken in 1938 by Edmund Engelman; home movies of her father taken by his daughter, Anna; and a recreation of the famous couch and desk.

See how the gods of the past influenced the mind of the future.

On loan from the Freud Museum in London.
Organised in collaboration with Monash University Museum of Art.

3 January – 30 March 2008

A series of lectures will be held at the Nicholson Museum in February and March in association with this exhibition. Click here for more details.

We are pleased to provide a pdf version of the catalogue, which has now sold out. Click here

This exhibition has attracted considerable media interest. For podcasts of interviews and discussions of the exhibition visit our webcasts page.
Newspaper articles include:
Here are a few of Freud's favourite things The Australian (30 January 2008)
Bust obsession no freudian slip Sydney Morning Herald (14 December 2007)
Psychoanalyse This. Exhibition Review. The Australian (9 February 2008)
Dr Maurice Whelan’s opinion article on Freud in the Sydney Morning Herald (7 February 2008)