Jack S. Blanton Museum
The Blanton Museum of Art is one of the foremost university art museums in the country and the leading art museum serving Austin and Central Texas. The Blanton's permanent collection of more than 17,000 works is recognized for its European paintings, modern and contemporary American and Latin American art, and an encyclopedic collection of prints and drawings.
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Performing Arts Center
Since its first performance in 1981, the University of Texas Performing Arts Center has evolved into one of the largest and most extraordinary university arts presenters in the country. Powered by a commitment to educate, enlighten and entertain, the PAC has helped establish the university and Austin as a venue for international culture and performing arts.
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Ransom Center
One of the world's finest cultural archives, the Harry Ransom Center houses 36 million literary manuscripts, one million rare books, five million photographs, and more than 100,000 works of art. Highlights include the Gutenberg Bible (c. 1455), the First Photograph (c. 1826), important paintings by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and major manuscript collections of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Tennessee Williams, to name but a few.
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LBJ Library
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum is one of 11 presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. The library houses 40 million pages of historical documents which include the papers from the entire public career of Lyndon Baines Johnson and also from those of close associates.
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Texas Memorial Museum
More than 75,000 people visit the Texas Memorial Museum each year. Exhibits focus on dinosaurs and fossils, Texas wildlife, and gems and minerals. Special features include a working Paleontology Lab where visitors can interact with scientists as they prepare fossil finds, and Virtual Science, the first immersive 3-D museum exhibit in the country.
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