European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The celebrated Couch of Sigmund Freud is among the exhibits in London s Freud museum. Freud a Couch possessions available for analysis by Charlene Chu United press International when pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was about to die he was put on a cot in his study amid the symbols of his career and the relics of an obsessive interest in the past. The study now serves As the Centrepiece of a Small 5-year-old museum in the modest North London Home where Freud lived a year after fleeing nazi persecution in 1938. In addition to the famed analytic Couch on which he encouraged patients to reveal their subconscious thoughts the study abounds with artefacts of ancient civilizations. The Couch itself is a Surprise. Draped with persian rugs russet and Brown velvet cushions it looks More comforting than mysterious in the crowded but Well lit room. Nestled above the head of the Couch sits the Green tub chair where Freud listened to patients reveal their anxieties. Quot now i know what to imagine when i think of him at work Quot said Marianne Martinsson a 34-year-old psychology student from Sweden visiting the museum. Quot i wanted to know How he lived his  his archaeological collection reveals an interest in the dark recesses of human history equal to his interest in the dark recesses of the mind. The study is crammed with Mummy masks statues figurines paintings and rugs. Freud s collection of artefacts from ancient Egypt Rome Greece and the Orient adorns every shelf Wall and table top. He cherished history and archaeology As much As the examination of the human personality. Quot i have read More archaeology than psychology Quot he Orice wrote in a letter to a Friend. A Short distance from the Couch and chair rests Freud s desk where he pondered and formulated his famous theories. Across the Back of the desk nearly two dozen figurines stand ready to take him Back through history. Quot he often spoke to and Felt them during his studies Quot museum spokeswoman Allison Green said. Quot on occasion he would take them to the dining room table while the family  the Independent museum receives nearly 12,000 visitors a year mostly from the United states France Germany and South America. It publishes a quarterly newsletter and holds monthly seminars of current topics in psychology. Quot contrary to popular belief it s not All analysts who come Quot Green said. The three floor red Brick House is at 20 Maresfield gardens a quiet Street in the North London Village of Hampstead. It is surprisingly modest among its larger late victorian neighbors. The House was converted into a museum in 1986, in accordance with the wishes of Freud s daughter Anna Freud a psychoanalyst like her father. In a room above the study visitors can watch Home movies of the Freud family filmed Between 1929 and 1939 and narrated by Anna. They Are perhaps the Best look at Freud s life outside his work. The films show his Vienna Home where he resided for 47 years draped in swastikas and a feeble frail Freud in route to London in 1938 with Anna. Also shown Are Freud s Mother whom the family visited every sunday while in Vienna his sister Mitzi one of three Sisters who died in the concentration Camps and three of his beloved dogs. Anna nursed Freud during the last year of his life and lived in the House after his death carrying on his theories and becoming a Pioneer child psychoanalyst. She died in 1982. In a room devoted to Anna the museum displays furniture from her study including her analytic Couch and desk and a loom from her bedroom. More than just a museum preserving the past the spirit of Freud and his family lives on in the suburban English Home. Three times a week manna Friedmann Anna s Friend and colleague of 36 years visits the museum to weave rugs on the loom that was bequeathed to her. The rugs Are offered for Sale to visitors. Quot it makes me think she would thoroughly approve of what i m doing Quot Friedmann said smiling As she remembers Anna. For Friedmann it is no mystery that Anna dedicated herself to her father s memory by preserving the room where he worked and the things he loved. Quot her father surely was the most important person in her life Quot she said. The Freud museum is opon irom noon to 5 . Wednesdays through sundays. Admission is 2 pounds about $3.50 Lor adults. 1 Pound Tor  and Coffee in an Ideal setting the associated press a Tea and Coffee museum has opened beside the thames River in a London Street where the scent of spices from abandoned victorian warehouses still hangs heavy in the air. Tea merchant Edward Bramah offers visitors cups of Tea and Coffee along with the history. A Low Ceil need floor of the old Clove building in Maguire Street where Butler s wharf fronts the South Side of the River East of Tower Bridge is filled with Bramah s vast collection of teapots and Coffee makers and the pictures and paraphernalia associated with them. There Are packets of Tea and caddies Tea urns a blending machine and teacups. Coffee from Yemen and Tea from China were both introduced into Europe in the mid-1 7th Century. There Are the earliest chinese teapots in Europe brought with the first shipments of Tea. There Are teapots shaped like automobiles Gas pumps cottages and boots. A Gigantic Teapot commissioned by Bramah in 1985 honors those who brought Fame to Tea. If Tea were brewed in it it would hold 800 cups. Quot but it will never be used because it is too heavy Quot Bramah said. The portraits on the Teapot include diarist Samuel Pepys who wrote in 1660 Quot did Send for a cup of Tea a China drink which i did never drink  also portrayed Are american Donald Mckay who designed Clipper ships for bringing Tea from China and Anna Duchess of Bedford who Early in the 19th Century complained of a sinking feeling Between lunch and dinner and transformed teatime by adding cakes so turning it into a Light meal. In the Coffee Section of the museum Are Coffee Beans and roasters and Grinders boiling pots serving pots and filter pots steam machines vacuum machines and Siphon machines and Coffee makers shaped like locomotives. Bramah who has wanted to create such a museum for 40 years began his career on a Tea Plantation in Malawi in 1950, trained As a Tea taster and moved into Coffee brokerage in Kenya and Tanzania. Quot the museum is a splendid idea especially because this area was the Larder of London Quot said Simon Hughes the local legislator for Southwark and Bermondsey. Quot Bermondsey was full of food manufacturing companies ships spices breweries Tea and Coffee firms where the world of Trade and dirty hands met the world of the Well groomed Quot Hughes said. April 16, 1992 stripes Magazine 9