Editing Leiden University (section)

==Location and buildings==
[[File:Leiden - Rapenburg - universiteit.JPG|thumb|The academy building of Leiden University in modern days]]

The university has no central campus; its buildings are spread over the city. Some buildings, like the Gravensteen, are very old, while Van Steenis, Lipsius and Gorlaeus are much more modern.<ref>[http://media.leidenuniv.nl/legacy/vier-eeuwen-geschiedenis-in-steen.pdf ''Vier eeuwen geschiedenis in steen. Universitaire gebouwen in Leiden''. Leiden, 2005] {{ISBN|90-9018052-4}}</ref>

Among the institutions affiliated with the university are The [[KITLV]] or Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (founded in 1851), the Leiden Observatory 1633; the Natural History Museum, with a very complete anatomical cabinet; the ''[[Rijksmuseum van Oudheden]]'' (National Museum of Antiquities), with especially valuable [[Egypt]]ian and Indian departments; a museum of Dutch antiquities from the earliest times; and three ethnographical museums, of which the nucleus was [[Philipp Franz von Siebold]]'s Japanese collections. The [[anatomy|anatomical]] and [[pathology|pathological]] laboratories of the university are modern, and the museums of geology and [[mineralogy]] have been restored.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}}

The [[Hortus Botanicus Leiden|Hortus Botanicus]] (botanical garden) is the oldest [[botanical garden]] in the Netherlands and one of the oldest in the world. Plants from all over the world have been carefully cultivated here by experts for more than four centuries. The Clusius garden (a reconstruction), the 18th-century Orangery with its monumental tub plants, the rare collection of historical trees hundreds of years old, the Japanese [[Siebold Memorial Museum]] symbolising the historical link between East and West, the tropical greenhouses with their world-class plant collections, and the central square and Conservatory exhibiting exotic plants from South Africa and southern Europe.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}}

===Campus The Hague===
[[File:Wijnhaven Lecture Hall.jpg|thumb|220x220px|A lecture hall in the Leiden University campus in the Hague.]]

In 1998, the university has expanded to The Hague which has become home to [[Campus The Hague]], with six of the seven faculties represented and exclusive home to the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, International Studies and [[Leiden University College The Hague]], a liberal arts and sciences college. Here, the university offers academic courses in the fields of law, political science, public administration and medicine. It occupied a number of buildings in the centre of the city, including a college building at [[Lange Voorhout]], before moving into the new 'Wijnhaven' building on Turfmarkt in 2016.

The Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs was established in 2011, together with the University College, and one of the largest programmes of the Faculty of Humanities, International Studies.

Since 2017 [[Leiden University Medical Center]] also has a branch at Campus The Hague.