17 Feb 2025
The campus of LMU’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Oberschleissheim is evolving to become the only education and research facility of its kind for veterinary medicine within Europe.
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With today’s topping out ceremony for the Anatomy and Pathology building and the first ground being broken for the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine’s central building, LMU Munich’s campus in Oberschleissheim is expanding further and evolving into a one-of-a-kind education and research facility for veterinary medicine within Europe.
“The expansion of Campus Oberschleissheim for LMU’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine has taken several more big steps forward,” says LMU President Prof. Bernd Huber. “Today’s groundbreaking ceremony for the central building and library and the topping out ceremony for the new Anatomy and Pathology building mark important milestones in the development of this outstanding location for education and research in veterinary medicine. My particular gratitude goes to the Free State of Bavaria for continuously supporting this pioneering project.”
“Twice the impact for veterinary medicine, twice the impact for the whole of LMU: These two building projects see us investing a further approximately 200 million euros in the campus here in Oberschleissheim, creating outstanding conditions for veterinary medicine at LMU and taking a major step forward in our master plan for the structural reorganization of the university – soon the work on the Physics campus on Königinstrasse can really get started,” emphasizes Bavaria’s Science Minister Markus Blume. “LMU’s Campus Oberschleissheim will be THE center for modern veterinary medicine in Europe. The Equine Clinic and Microbiology are already completed. The new Anatomy and Pathology building unites these two excellent departments in one location. And with the central buildings for the lecture halls and library, we will also have the perfect framework for teaching and learning. This is a great success for LMU and a great success for the Free State of Bavaria. We are investing in total around 430 million euros in the campus.”
Students and scientists alike can look forward to the new central building offering modern infrastructure for studying and research. The buildings for the central institutions will house not only spacious lecture halls but also a library with desks for individual study and tables for group work as well as a canteen and cafeteria.
The new Skills Lab in the central building will lend an innovative edge to LMU’s teaching of animal husbandry for all veterinary medicine students and trainees. Students will be able to work on lifelike models here in preparation for the demands of their future profession. Compared to the Skills Lab already located on the main university campus, the new teaching facilities will be significantly larger in size and will enable model-based and virtual learning to become an even bigger part of the students’ education in veterinary medicine at LMU.
The new building for Animal Anatomy and Animal Pathology brings the two disciplines under one roof. This will facilitate more intensive mutual exchange and improve the collaboration between Anatomy and Pathology within the Veterinary Medicine Faculty. The building will be a workplace for some 150 people. Here, too, there will be new lecture halls, as well as preparation and dissecting rooms and extensive collections. Animal Pathology in particular will also offer important services for veterinary surgeons and animal hospitals, as well as farmers and zoos. The project is being realized by architects doranth post architekten GmbH.
With the latest groundbreaking ceremony for the central building and the topping out of Anatomy and Pathology, LMU’s Oberschleissheim campus is progressively taking shape: Besides the Clinic for Ruminants, the Clinic for Birds, Small Mammals, Reptiles, and Ornamental Fish, the Equine Clinic, and a lecture hall building with cafeteria, which have already been completed, the new microbiology building was inaugurated in 2023.
The current building works, which have a budget of more than 200 million euros, are expected to enable all teaching within LMU’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine to take place primarily at Oberschleissheim from the year 2027 onward.
These developments are helping the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at LMU to reinforce its position as the leading facility for teaching and research in veterinary medicine in Germany and Europe.
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