Sigmund Freud's Vienna private rooms open, bereft of furniture

Visitors stand in the study room of the apartment of the psychologist Sigmund Freud in Vienna. Photo: AFP

All of Sigmund Freud's private rooms in Vienna opened to the public last weekend - though they are devoid of any furniture since the Jewish founder of psychoanalysis took almost everything with him when he fled to London before World War II.

"We are dealing with an exhibition showing that there is nothing left here," architect Herman Czech told journalists this week ahead of the Sigmund Freud Museum's re-opening after 18 months of renovations.