The Warburg Institute is one of the world's leading centres for studying the interaction of ideas, images and society. It is dedicated to the history of ideas, the dissemination and transformations of images in society, and the relationship between images, art and their texts and subtexts, of all epochs and across the globe, concerning both memory and material culture.Founded by Aby Warburg in Hamburg at the end of the nineteenth century, the Warburg Institute and its famous library migrated under pressure from the Nazi regime in Germany to London in 1933. In 1944 the Institute was incorporated in the University of London and it moved into its purpose-built building in London's Bloomsbury quarter in 1958. It attracts the greatest humanist scholars and philosophers – from Erwin Panofsky, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Gombrich, Edgar Wind, Francis Yates and Ernst Cassirer, and continues to attract Fellows and post-graduate students of the highest calibre.The Warburg Institute Library holds a collection of international importance in the humanities. Its 360,000 volumes, available on open shelves, make it the largest collection in the world focused on Renaissance studies and the history of the classical tradition. The Warburg Institute's Photographic Collection contains physical photographs of sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints, tapestries and other forms of imagery. The Collection was begun by Aby Warburg in the late 1880s, and includes tens of thousands of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century photographs and slides, together with hundreds of thousands of images added since the Institute came to London in 1933.The Archive of the Institute preserves the working materials and papers of the Institute's founder Aby Warburg and of other distinguished scholars closely associated with the Institute from its days in Hamburg to the present.