Saxon Psychiatric Museum
The Saxon Psychiatric Museum (Sächsisches Psychiatriemuseum) is a small museum in Leipzig and deals with the history of lunatic asylums and psychiatry. It is organized by the Durchblick association, an initiative for people affected by psychiatry in Leipzig. It was founded in 2000. The special exhibitions deal with individual fates, careers and institutions: the life stories of the court president Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911) and the Saxon dialect poet Lene Voigt (1891–1962) the biographies and therapeutic concepts of doctors and psychiatrists such as Christian August Fürchtegott Hayner (1775–1837) and Hermann Paul Nitsche (1876–1948) the development of psychiatric institutions in Saxony in the Middle Ages (Hospital St. Georg) up to the sanatorium and nursing homes (Sonnenstein Castle, Thonberg private institution, Dösen sanatorium).
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Mainzer Straße, Leipzig center west (Mitte)
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Mainzer Straße 7
04109 Leipzig, center west (Mitte)
Saxony, Germany
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