formerly Serotonin Club
ISSR 2025
Lunch Tours
Lunch Tours are organized to allow our participants to get to know sparks of Viennese history – with ties to science or medicine, always viewed from a historical background.
The guided tours will last one hour – the walking distance is between 5 and 15 minutes from the venues. Lunch will be provided at the meeting points for the tours – and can be eaten before or/and after the guided tour. There is an additional fee to participate in each tour that is not included in registration fees for the conference. Refer to your registration confirmation email for links to register for the lunch tours.
Josephinum: anatomical wax models and medicinal-historic books
This tour will take the interested participants to one of the most important treasures of medicine history. Among the holdings are extensive libraries, archive materials, pictures, bequests, teaching aids, models and instruments that have accrued in connection with the everyday work of the faculty in science, teaching, research and healthcare, thus representing their development in a range of different ways. The heart of the collections in the Josephinum is the original holdings that Joseph II ordered for the founding of the institution, especially the world-famous collection of anatomical wax models and the Josephinian Library. The visit will show case the important wax models and some of the most precious books including anatomical depictions of the body as well as pharmaceutically relevant plants.
Narrenturm (so-called "Fools' Tower“)
This tour will take the interested participants to another of the most important treasures of medicine history, located in Vienna. The so-called Narrenturm is an important monument to the history of health care and medicine in the late 18th century. It was founded in 1784 for the care of mentally ill people. The building is a listed monument and is now owned by the University of Vienna. In 1971, the Federal Pathological-Anatomical Museum was housed here, which was incorporated into the Natural History Museum Vienna in 2012 as the pathological-anatomical collection in the Narrenturm. The building was completely renovated and reopened in 2020 with a new display of the collection. The visit will reflect not only important pieces of the collection but also specifically highlight showcases of neuropsychiatric illness specifically.
Freud Museum, Berggasse 19
Here, the visitors will be able to follow the paths of Sigmund Freud and learn how he established himself from a physiologist-pharmacologist to the inventor of psychotherapy at a later stage of his career. The private rooms of the Freud family are dedicated to Freud’s life as a family father and his career path as a young physician and neurologist. Objects such as hospital documents and medicinal instruments, as well as travel toiletry kits, gifts to his future wife Martha, and other personal objects provide the viewer with information on Freud’s family life, and according to Daniela Finzi, “set into motion imaginations, associations, and narratives.” Texts and manuscripts from the estate of the Freud family will be presented to the public for the first time in these rooms. Freud’s former bedroom is dedicated to the topic of The Interpretation of Dreams – listening stations furthermore provide an auditory experience of Sigmund Freud’s dreams. Original pieces of furniture have found their way into the exhibition for the first time including a dresser on permanent loan from the Freud Museum London which, along with its accompanying intarsia table, makes up part of the original, historical ensemble of the Herrenzimmer (gentlemen’s salon).
Walking tour central Vienna - History of Medicine:
The participants of these tours (every day a different topic, see homepage) will learn of the medical-historical contribution of the Viennese school of medicine. These will also lead through the important places from now and then - and guide the participants through the area of the old general hospital, will show the new places including the new buildings that are being built at the Campus Mariannengasse etc.
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