*This Museum IS NOT Participating in Museum Day 2011*
21st and Guadalupe Streets
Austin, TX 78712
512-471-8944
Harry Ransom Center Website »
The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin houses a rare Gutenberg Bible, the First Photograph, and extensive collections of literature, art, photography, film, and the performing arts. The Center presents exhibitions and events featuring materials from its rich holdings.
Visit the exhibition “Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection," which highlights key moments in the history of photograph and important technological and ideological shifts in the act of picture making.
Participation in Museum Day is open to any tax-exempt or governmental museum or cultural venue on a voluntary basis. Smithsonian magazine encourages museum visitation, but is not responsible for and does not endorse the content of the participating museums and cultural venues, and does not subsidize museums that participate.
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