LeidenGlobal has moved to a new location. The team now operates from the Herta Mohr Building at Leiden University. In the coming months more LeidenGlobal partners will move to the new building.
This building holds a significant distinction as it is the first building which Leiden University named after a female scientist. Herta Mohr, born in Vienna in 1914, moved to Leiden in the late 1930s. She studied Egyptology at Leiden University and conducted research on a mastaba (burial chapel) at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. Tragically, Mohr, of Jewish descent, was arrested during World War II and deported to Westerbork concentration camp in 1942. She passed away in April 1945. Read more about Mohr in this blog (in Dutch) by former LeidenGlobal employee Nicky van Beek.
The Herta Mohr Building will accommodate several academic institutes and libraries specializing in various global regions, including LeidenGlobal partners:
- The African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) and the African Library
- The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
- The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, Faculty of Humanities (LIAS)
- The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO)
- The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)
- The Middle Eastern Library
- Faculty Office of the Faculty of Humanities
Our new visiting address is:
Herta Mohr building
Witte Singel 27A
2311 BG Leiden