The research library of cultural history founded in Hamburg in 1926 by Aby Warburg went into exile in London in 1933. As part of the Univer-sity of London, in 1958 it was given a building of its own in the district of Bloomsbury. The architect Charles Holden was responsible for the sober but appealing design. In the course of a conceptual realignment the Warburg Institute was extensively renovated and cautiously extended by the architectural studio Haworth Tompkins in 2018–2024.