Blindern

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Blindern is the main campus of the University of Oslo. The others are Sentrum, Gaustad, Ullevål/Geitmyrsveien and Tøyen. Blindern contains most of the university departments, with the exception of some facilities for law and medicine.

The central building is the new university library, Georg Sverdrup's house. Other buildings of note are Eilert Sundt's house, the social studies building; the humanities buildings, named after Sophus Bugge, Henrik Wergeland, Niels Treschow and P. A. Munch; Fredrikke, the welfare building; and Niels Henrik Abel's house, for mathematical studies.

Though the construction of a university campus at Blindern was decided on as early as 1921, the first buildings were not ready for use before 1931. Only in 1960 was Øvre Blindern, the area most associate with the University today, finished. UiO today has approximately 32,000 students.