Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
FREUD MUSEUM
20 Maresfield Gardens Finchley Road 020 7435 2002,
www.freud.org.uk
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Wed-Sun noon-5pm.£7.
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Hidden away in the leafy streets of south Hampstead, the Freud Museum is one of the most
poignant of London's museums. Having lived in Vienna for his entire adult life,
Sigmund
Freud
was forced to flee the Nazis, and arrived in London during the summer of 1938 as a
semi-invalid (he died within a year). The ground-floor study and library look exactly as they
did when Freud lived here - the collection of erotic antiquities and the famous couch, sump-
tuously draped in Persian carpets, were all brought here from Vienna. Upstairs, home
movies of family life in Vienna are shown continually, and a small room is dedicated to his
daughter, Anna, herself an influential child analyst, who lived in the house until her death in
1982.
HIGHGATE CEMETERY
Swain's Lane Archway 020 8340 1834,
www.highgatecemetery.org
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Receiving far more visitors than Highgate itself, Highgate Cemetery is London's most fam-
ous graveyard. The most illustrious incumbent of the
East Cemetery
(April-Oct Mon-Fri
10am-5pm, Sat and Sun 11am-5pm; Nov-March closes 4pm; £4) is
Karl Marx
. Erected by
the Communist movement in 1954, his vulgar bronze bust surmounting a granite plinth is a
far cry from the unfussy memorial he had requested; close by lies the much simpler grave of
the author George Eliot. The East Cemetery's lack of atmosphere is in part compensated for
by the fact that you can wander at will through its maze of circuitous paths.
On the other side of Swain's Lane, the overgrown
West Cemetery
, with its spooky Egyp-
tian Avenue and terraced catacombs, is the ultimate Hammer Horror graveyard, and one of
the city's most impressive sights. Visitors can only enter by way of a
guided tour
(March-Nov Mon-Fri 1.45pm, Sat and Sun every 30min 11am-4pm; £12; no under 8s) -
get there early on summer Sundays. Among the prominent graves usually visited are those
of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and of lesbian novelist Radclyffe Hall.
