Studying with a view

At LMU, teaching and learning takes place at countless lecture halls and facilities across virtually the whole of the city. But which of these halls is the biggest? Which has room for the smallest number of students? And which might claim to command the best views?

The Audimax at the BMC – LMU’s biggest lecture theater

Enlarge

The Audimax at the Biomedical Center (BMC) seats 950 people and is the university’s largest lecture theater. Part of this modern facility is actually underground. Access is at ground level, from where the generously dimensioned rows of seats descend into the first and second basement floors. Built in 2015, the BMC at the Martinsried campus combines two research buildings and one teaching building, where seminar rooms and facilities for practical work are complemented by two lecture theaters. One of these is the Audimax. The theater is thus one of LMU’s most recent lecture halls.

Address: Grosshaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, room: N 00.001

Best-known lecture hall: the Audimax in the main building

Enlarge

Probably the university’s best-known lecture theater is the Audimax in the main LMU building on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz. Topped by an imposing glass roof and filled with striking rows of wooden benches, it has room for 815 people and is the university’s second-largest lecture theater. Situated at the heart of the main building, it has multiple entrances on three levels, all leading from the Atrium and the Amalienhalle. For generations, the Audimax has been a central venue for students to come and think, listen and learn.

Address: Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München, room: A 030

Lecture theater in the tower at the Faculty of Law

Enlarge

The LMU lecture hall with what is surely the most stunning view is in the tower at the Faculty of Law, looking out across Munich from Professor-Huber-Platz. Yet it is more than a panoramic vista that captures the students’ attention: The unique atmosphere in this 168-seat room also helps keep them concentrated. The incidence of the light flooding the room contributes to a calm, studious ambiance – making this a place of learning that is not merely functional but pleasantly enriching to the everyday experience of studying.

Address: Professor-Huber-Platz 2, 80539 München, ZG2, room W201

The smallest LMU lecture hall

Enlarge

The university’s tiniest lecture hall has just 32 seats. This diminutive auditorium is located in a tiny rear courtyard on the Amalienstrasse – in a building that doesn’t even look like it belongs to LMU. Like so many places around the city, however, especially in the Maxvorstadt district, it does indeed harbor university teaching rooms. This tiny hall is the perfect setting for lectures in a more private atmosphere, leaving ample room for questions, discussions and the sharing of ideas.

Address: Amalienstrasse 73A, 80799 München, room 114

Lecture hall with moped seats at the Anatomical Institute

The lecture hall with LMU’s most unusual seating arrangements can be found at the Faculty of Medicine’s Anatomical Institute. Here, students in the back rows sit not on traditional folding seats, but on moped seats – a creative solution to the cramped conditions at the upper end of the room. The venue for lectures on the human anatomy thus has space for a total of 416 people.

Address: Pettenkoferstrasse 11, 80336 München, large auditorium

Student support services