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The Sigmund Freud Archives and the New-Land Foundation are cooperatively involved in the project to establish the Freud Museum at 20 Maresfield Gardens, the beautiful London house which was Freud's residence after he moved to England from Vienna in 1938. An international fund-raising campaign has been under way for some time, in which many distinguished analysts from all over the world have been active participants. Princess Alexandra, the Queen's cousin, will open the museum in July 1986, and the founders anticipate that it will attract over 25,000 visitors annually.

As is generally known, Anna Freud continued to occupy 20 Maresfield Gardens until her death in 1982. It was her wish that the house, containing her father's library, furniture, and the artifacts he brought with him from Austria, be converted into a living museum. The collection, which includes Freud's famous couch and desk, will serve as more than a memorial to the founder of psychoanalysis, since the museum will function as an active cultural and research center for the mental health professions.

20 Maresfield Gardens is a spacious Queen Anne revival house on a quiet street in Hampstead, a residential suburb in northwest London. In the late 1970's, the Freud Archives purchased the house with funds provided by Dr. Muriel Gardiner and the New-Land Foundation, in keeping with Anna Freud's wishes to have the house and its contents preserved as a memorial to her father after her death. In 1982, an application was submitted to the London Borough of Camden for the conversion of 20 Maresfield Gardens into a museum. In the spring of 1984 these plans were officially approved.

The spirit of these plans is to keep as much of the house as possible in its original state in order to show visitors how the Freuds lived and worked. In that respect it will be quite different from the small museum at Berggasse 19, Freud's home in Vienna.

In particular, Freud's study will be preserved as he left it. Paula Fichtl, the