University of Warsaw - Campus

Campus

The main campus of the University of Warsaw is in downtown Warsaw, in Krakowskie Przedmieście. It comprises several historic palaces, most of which had been nationalized in the 19th century. The chief buildings include:

• Kazimierzowski Palace (Pałac Kazimierzowski) – the seat of the rector and the senate;
• the Old Library (Stary BUW) – since recent refurbishment, a secondary lecture building;
• the Main School (Szkoła Główna) – former seat of the Main School until the January 1863 Uprising, later the faculty of biology; now, since its refurbishment, the seat of the institute of archaeology;
• Auditorium Maximum – the main lecture hall, with seats for several hundred students.

There is also the New Library (Nowy BUW) – an impressive new building with spectacular roof gardens as well as several smaller campuses elsewhere in the city, most notably so called Ochota Campus at Banacha Street (ulica Banacha) where a number of science departments are located: the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanics (MIM), the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Biology, the Department of Geology, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, the Heavy Ion Laboratory, the Institute of Experimental Physics (as part of the Department of Physics).

The University of Warsaw owns a total of 126 buildings. Further construction and a vigorous renovation program are underway at the main campus.