Directions to the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
The Beckman Institute is located on the south side of University Avenue, between Mathews Avenue and Wright Street in Urbana. The street address is 405 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana, 61801. University Avenue is a major east-west thoroughfare running from west Champaign to east Urbana.
Parking:
Please park at a metered spot in the Beckman circle drive off of Mathews Ave. The Visit Coordinator will meet you in this parking area and pay your parking meter. If there are no parking spaces available, the Visit Coordinator will help you find an alternate spot in the campus parking deck just east of the Institute.
Click here for MTD bus routes (select Beckman Institute as your end point).
Additional directions:
From the east on I-74
- Drive west on I-74 to the Lincoln Avenue exit.
- Take the Lincoln Avenue exit south to University Avenue.
- Turn right onto University Avenue and go to Mathews Avenue.
- Turn left onto Mathews Avenue.
From the west on I-74
- Drive east on I-74 to the Lincoln Avenue Exit.
- Take the Lincoln Avenue exit south to University Avenue.
- Turn right onto University Avenue and go to Mathews Avenue.
- Turn left onto Mathews Avenue.
From the west on I-72
- Drive east on I-72. As you arrive in Champaign, I-72 becomes University Avenue.
- Follow University Avenue east through Champaign into Urbana where, at Wright Street, the Beckman Institute is located.
- The next street is Mathews Avenue, onto which you make a right turn.
