Library & Collections Study Research & Fellowships What's on Publications Support us About More Site search Search About us Coronavirus FAQs Email page Print page Share page on Twitter (Opens in new window) Share page on Facebook (Opens in new window) Share page on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Warburg is Warburg, and everything else is everything else! Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, 2018 The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for studying the interaction of ideas, images, and society. It was founded in Hamburg by the pioneering historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929), the scholarly scion of one of Europe’s great banking families, and it was exiled to England in 1933, becoming the only institution saved from Nazi Germany to survive intact in Britain today. The Institute became part of the University of London in 1944 and has been housed since 1958 in a building designed by Charles Holden, opening onto three of Bloomsbury’s historic squares. Warburg set out to find the roots of the Renaissance in ancient culture and ended up changing the way we see the world around us. He created a research institute that has served—during a turbulent century—as a safe haven and creative crucible for some of the world’s greatest scholars, curators, and artists. Today, the Institute provides postgraduate courses, hosts research projects and offers a range of public programmes. It houses an open-stack library of more than 380,000 rare and modern volumes still organised using Warburg’s original structure, as well as a Photographic Collection with more than 400,000 images and one of the most complete archives of any research centre in the humanities. Governance of the Warburg History of the Warburg Institute Contact us and opening hours People News The Warburg Institute Secondary Navigation About us Information for current students Alumni Subscribe The Warburg Institute University of London (Opens in new window) School of Advanced Study (Opens in new window) Woburn Square London WC1H 0AB Website Accessibility Copyright and disclaimers Privacy and Cookies Warburg - Social Links Facebook (Opens in new window) Instagram (Opens in new window) Linkedin (Opens in new window) Twitter (Opens in new window) Youtube (Opens in new window)