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Facts and Figures

New Building for the Small Departments

  • Official opening: May 29, 2015
  • Floor area: 12,650 square meters (including the library)
  • Construction time: 2.5 years
  • Total construction costs: approximately 52 million euros
  • Federal grant: about 18.5 million euros
  • Contribution by the university: about 33.5 million euros
  • Lecture halls: 3
  • Seminar rooms: 12 (incl. PC seminar rooms)
  • Offices: 220
  • Builder: Freie Universität Berlin
  • Architect: Florian Nagler Architekten GmbH, Munich
  • Technical equipment: Büro Ingenieurgesellschaft W33, Berlin
  • Structural engineering: Büro Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner, Berlin
  • Landscaping: Häfner / Jiménez Büro für Landschaftsarchitektur, Berlin

The new building includes:

The Campus Library, the Dean's Office and Administration of the Department of History and Cultural Studies, and 14 institutes and subdepartments of the Department of History and Cultural Studies:

  • Egyptology
  • Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology
  • Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology
  • Institute of Classical Archaeology
  • Institute of Korean Studies
  • Institute of Chinese Studies
  • Institute of Islamic Studies
  • Semitic and Arabic Studies
  • Institute of Iranian Studies
  • Institute of Turkic Studies
  • Institute of Jewish Studies
  • Catholic Theology
  • Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion

Facts and Figures about the Campus Library:

  • Holdings: About 1 million volumes from 24 institutional and departmental libraries (a total of 30 kilometers of books)
  • Floor area: 5580 square meters
  • Individual reading and working spaces: 950
  • Group rooms: 12
  • Classification system: Regensburger Classification
  • Opening times: Mon. - Fri. 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. / Sat. - Sun. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The following departmental libraries were consolidated in the Campus Library:

  • Education and psychology
  • Women's and gender studies
  • Japanese studies
  • Chinese studies
  • Religion
  • Protestant theology with religious history
  • Jewish studies
  • Catholic theology
  • Comparative ethics
  • Islamic studies
  • Semitic and Arabic studies
  • Iranian studies
  • Turkic studies
  • Prehistoric archaeology
  • Classical archaeology
  • Egyptology
  • Ancient Near Eastern archaeology
  • Ancient Near Eastern languages and civilizations
  • Pharmacy
  • Chemistry and biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Mathematics and computer science