Psychology Trips to Vienna

This permanent exhibition in the Old Town Hall was set up to educate the country’s youth about the consequences of Austria’s loss of self-identity and freedom after Nazi annexation in March 1938.

The Mauthausen Memorial provides information posts with historical photographs and explanatory texts giving a background to those areas of the Memorial in which the original buildings no longer exist. The explanations are supplemented by quotes from eye-witness reports and statements by former Mauthausen inmates.

The Evolution of Man 
Visitors to the Museum have the opportunity not only to see the evolution of man as a historical, biological process, but also to perceive cultural development as a significant component of humanisation. A modular approach to the knowledge content was chosen for the exhibition, enabling both a playful, interactive access and the option of an in-depth look at more complex issues.

Opened in 1971 on the initiative of Freud’s daughter, Anna, the museum is located in the apartment where Sigmund lived and worked from 1898 to 1938, when he was forced into exile by the Nazis.

The Judenplatz Museum provides visitors with an insight into Jewish life in medieval Vienna. Contained within the museum are the remains of a synagogue destroyed by fire in the 15th century, plus other exhibits relating to the Jewish religious and cultural life of the period. In the Judenplatz area stands the central memorial for the Austrian victims of the Holocaust designed by the British artist Rachel Whiteread.

The neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, founder of the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy", resided at the museum’s location since his return to Vienna in 1945. It was there that he completed his thesis on the human person as a spiritual being, capable of defeating the worst conditions as soon as and as long as he finds meaning in life.  Today Frankl's workplace is an inspirational museum, in which visitors are gradually introduced to Viktor Frankl's life, his philosophy and psychotherapy.

Meaning “Fools’ Tower,” the Narrenturm is continental Europe's oldest mental hospital. Enjoy a fascinating guided tour covering the history of the institution whose construction pointed to a new attitude towards the mentally ill.  Now home to the Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum your tour consists of information about the building's time as a mental hospital and a walk through the fascinating pathological exhibits.