Ours is one of the most well-tended wooded campuses in America, marked by distinctive limestone buildings updated for contemporary use. Cited by Thomas A. Gaines in his book The Campus as a Work of Art as one of the five most beautiful campuses in the U.S., it includes the Kirkwood Observatory planetarium, the greenhouses of the IU conservatory, and an arboretum. Wooded pathways meander alongside the small Campus River.
The Indiana Memorial Union is one of the largest student unions in the country, with a hotel and conference facilities, delicious dining, and myriad student activities.
Besides the Herman B Wells full research library, the campus hosts a dozen satellite libraries, the Lilly Library rare books and manuscripts archive, and the archives of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Scientific labs abound.
The Eskenazi Museum of Art includes remarkable works by Picasso, Braque, Davis, Rembrandt, Monet, Pollock, Rivera, as well as stunning ancient and non-Western collections. The Media School is part of the core central campus, located in an historic building that has been recently redesigned for classroom use. The Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design resides in a new building based on a Mies van der Rohe early-50s design making it of one of the most interesting pieces of academic architecture in recent memory. The School of Global and International Studies draws scholars and speakers from around the world.
The College of Arts