Academisch Historisch Museum, Leiden

The Academic History Museum is a museum in the Dutch city of Leiden, province of South Holland. Housed in the Academy Building, the museum displays objects, photographs and documentation about the history of Leiden University and student life. The museum has permanent and temporary exhibitions. The permanent exhibition includes some twenty statues of Leiden professors. There are several smaller exhibitions throughout the Academy Building. Also special are the entrance to the Academy Building, the vault room and the Great Auditorium that was used for theology lectures. In the stair tower and at the entrance to the sweat room, a number of unusual charcoal drawings were made by Victor de Stuers in 1865. By student Uri Ruff, modern student life was depicted in a mural in 2009. The temporary exhibition is housed, among other things, in the reception area.

The museum opened on February 9, 1931. Notable curators of the Academic History Museum included Octavie Idenburg-Siegenbeek van Heukelom, Rudi Ekkart, and Willem Otterspeer.

As of January 1, 2017, the Academic History Museum became part of the Leiden University Libraries.