Editing Leiden (section)

=== University buildings ===

[[File:Leiden-Sterrewacht-2013-d.jpg|thumb|The 1860 [[Leiden Observatory]], after restoration (2013)]]
[[File:Hortus botanicus Leiden.jpg|thumb|Botanical gardens]]
The city centre contains many buildings that are in use by the [[University of Leiden]]. The ''Academy Building'' is housed in a former 16th-century [[convent]]. Among the institutions connected with the university are the national institution for East Indian languages, [[ethnology]] and [[geography]]; the botanical gardens, founded in 1587; the [[Leiden Observatory|observatory]] (1860); the museum of antiquities (''[[Rijksmuseum van Oudheden]]''); and the [[ethnography|ethnographical]] museum, of which [[Philipp Franz von Siebold|P.{{nbsp}}F. von Siebold's]] Japanese collection was the nucleus (''[[National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands)|Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde]]''). This collection is now housed in a separate museum called the ''[[SieboldHuis]]''. The Bibliotheca Thysiana occupies an old [[Renaissance]] building of the year 1655. It is especially rich in legal works and [[vernacular]] chronicles. Noteworthy are also the many special collections at [[Leiden University Library]] among which those of the [[Society of Dutch Literature]] (1766) and the collection of casts and engravings. In recent years the university has built the [[Leiden Bio Science Park]] at the city's outskirts to accommodate the Science departments. {{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}