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Harry Ransom Center
One of the world's finest cultural institutions, the Harry Ransom Center presents exhibitions drawn from its collections of literature, art, photography, performing arts, and film. A rare Gutenberg Bible and the First Photograph are on permanent display in the lobby.
In fall 2008, the Harry Ransom Center features the following exhibitions in the Ransom Center Galleries.
The Mystique of the Archive
September 2, 2008–January 4, 2009
This exhibition explores the promise of mystery, adventure, and discovery embodied in the aura of archives. Drawing from the Harry Ransom Center's extensive modern literature collections—Julian Barnes, Don DeLillo, Anne Sexton, and many others—the exhibition describes what constitutes an archive, documents the evolution of creative works from first draft to first edition, and maps an archive's journey from the writer's home to the scholar's desk, revealing acquisition intrigues, preservation challenges, and cataloging puzzles along the way.
A Cabinet of Drawings
September 2, 2008–January 4, 2009
Using almost any medium that will leave a mark—crayon, pencil, charcoal, chalk, pastel, pen and ink, gouache, and watercolor—visual thinkers have produced a wide range of images, from intimate expressions of the individual's innermost thoughts to highly refined master works. This exhibition or "cabinet" of over 100 drawings from the Ransom Center's diverse collections features book illustrations, designs, illustrated letters, landscapes, and portraiture by internationally recognized figures, such as William Blake, Jean Cocteau, Miguel Covarrubias,
E. E. Cummings, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Miller, Pablo Picasso, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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Free docent-led tours of the exhibitions occur on Tuesdays at noon and Saturdays at 2 p.m.
The Ransom Center welcomes groups and school field trips. To schedule your visit, please visit the website or call 512-475-8086.
Paid parking is available in the Dobie Center parking garage on the corner of 21st and Whitis and in various nearby surface lots. Information about University-operated parking garages and shuttle service routes is available online. Limited street parking is available in the neighborhood west of Guadalupe Street. Capital Metro offers several bus routes that stop near the Ransom Center, including 1M, 1L, and the Orange and Red Dillos.
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The Ransom Center is free and open to the public.
go to Harry Ransom Center home page
Corner of 21st and Guadalupe Streets
on The University of Texas at Austin campus
(512) 471-8944
Tues, Wed, Fri. 10-5
Thur 10-7
Sat-Sun 12-5
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