Self-Guided Walking Tour - Ohio State University

1 Self-Guided Walking tour A Self-Guided Walking tour of the central Columbus campus Ohio State boasts some of the nation's finest facilities for students, and we encourage you to explore them. Join the many students, faculty and staff who crisscross campus every day, and feel free to enter any building that interests you. Please don't enter classrooms if a class is in session, however. You can complete this tour in about an hour and a half. Enjoy your visit! 1 The Ohio Union is the heart of 4 Mendenhall Laboratory first 8 The Oval, the open grassy area student life, featuring support for more opened in 1905 and is the current stretching from Thompson Library to than 1,200 student organizations, an home of the Department of Geological College Road, has symbolized Ohio instructional kitchen, the Archie M.

2 Griffin Sciences. Check out the fossil-like State to students and visitors for Grand Ballroom, meeting rooms and event design of the floor in the main lobby. generations. At the heart of campus, spaces, Sloopy's Diner and other eating This building also houses the Writing the Oval is a favorite place for reading, options, a retail shop, and places to study Center, where the University community relaxing and meeting friends. Legend and relax. Also located at the Ohio Union: gets help with research papers, lab has it that if you take the Long Walk.

3 Undergraduate Admissions Visits and reports, dissertations and resumes. from the seal at the east end to the Events, Student Life Multicultural Center, William Oxley Thompson statue on the satellite office for the alumni association 5 Hagerty Hall, home of the World west end while holding hands with your and Student Life Off-Campus and Media and Culture Center, houses loved one, you'll be together forever. Commuter Student Services. several academic departments, foreign language laboratories and an 9 Hopkins Hall is home to fine art, 2 Hale Hall welcomes all students and international media library.

4 Industrial design and art education guests as home to the Office of Diversity classes. Visit the Hopkins Hall Gallery and Inclusion. This recently renovated 6 Page Hall opened in 1902 and is to view exhibits by faculty, students and facility is also home to one of the finest recognized by its classic architectural visiting artists. Open Monday through Black Cultural Centers in the country, elements, including grand Ionic columns. Friday, 11 to 5 (4 summer). an exceptional art gallery, and several These architectural elements were student support centers and student preserved when it was renovated to 10 Bricker Hall houses the Office of retention offices.

5 House the John Glenn College of Public the President and other administrative Affairs. Check out the John Glenn offices. The Bricker Hall Exhibit Area 3 Orton Hall was named for Ohio Museum in the lower level there's even (on the first and second floors) regularly State 's first president, Edward Orton, and a piece of the moon! features University collections, artifacts was built in 1893 using 40 types of Ohio and the work of University artists. building stone. Orton houses the bell 7. The Wexner Center for the Arts is tower chimes 14 bells weighing more an internationally renowned research 11.

6 The 18th Avenue Library, one of than 25,000 pounds that ring at the lab and center for contemporary art, Ohio State 's 17 libraries, is open 24/7. top of every hour and each quarter hour. film, dance and other performances. and houses one of the 20 computer Stop by the Geology Library and the As members of the center, Ohio State labs on campus. Orton Geological Museum (and gift shop) students are entitled to discount tickets and other benefits. Admission to the 12 Scott Laboratory, one of the newest to check out minerals, fossils, crystals buildings on campus, is actually three and more.

7 Galleries is $8 (free for those under 18). While you're there, stop by the Wexner buildings joined by an elevated walkway. Center shop or grab a bite at Heirloom. Home to the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Scott Lab houses several computer labs, an electronics lab and a machine shop for class projects. Continued on back 1 E. Norwich Ave. Riverwatch enstein Tower W. Norwich Ave. Lawrence nter Bloch Cancer West Tower Tuller St. Survivors Lane Ave. Plaza Garage N. Hig Neil Ave. Perry St. h St. W. Lane Ave.

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