Harry Ransom Center
301 W 21st ST (map) 512-471-8944
About the Ransom Center:
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2007, the Harry Ransom Center has evolved into a world-renowned cultural institution. The Ransom Center houses the Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1455), the First Photograph (ca. 1826), film archives of David O. Selznick and Robert De Niro, 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, Tennessee Williams, and Norman Mailer, to name but a few of its treasures. The Center presents numerous public exhibitions and events featuring materials from its rich holdings and is used extensively for research by students and scholars from around the world.
Location:
Harry Ransom Center
21st and Guadalupe
P.O. Box 7219
Austin, Texas 78713-7219
Telephone: 512.471.8944
Fax: 512.471.9646
Directions:
The Center is located at the NE corner of 21st and Guadalupe on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. To find where the Center is situated on the UT campus, see the UT Tower Area Map.
Click here to access The University of Texas at Austin's visitor information page that includes maps, accessibility information, driving/flying directions, and links to general Austin information as well as accommodation information.
Hours:
Ransom Center Galleries | 10:00-5:00 Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday The Ransom Center Galleries are closed Mondays and the following holidays: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. |
Library Reading/Viewing Rooms | 9:00-5:00 Monday-Friday |
Administrative Offices | 8:00-5:00 (closed Noon-1:00) Monday-Friday Central Standard Time |
The Library Reading Room/Viewing Room will be closed on these dates:
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Parking:
Limited street parking is available in the neighborhood west of Guadalupe Street. Paid parking is available in the Dobie Center parking garage on the corner of 21st and Whitis and in lots just east and south of Dobie Center. Click here to see maps for UT parking areas and shuttle service routes. Capital Metro offers several bus routes that run near the Ransom Center, including 1M, 1L, and the Orange and Red Dillos.
Admission: Free and open to the public.
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“Winston Churchill’s Public Library”
Thu. 12/02 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
Drew University historian Jonathan Rose delivers the inaugural Donald G. Davis, Jr. Lecture, “Winston Churchill’s Public Library” on Thursday, December 2, at 7 p.m. at the Ha…more»
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“Proust, Paintings, and the Making of À la recherche du temps perdu”
Thu. 11/11 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
Artist and writer Eric Karpeles delivers the biennial Amon Carter Lecture, “Proust, Paintings, and the Making of À la recherche du temps perdu” on Thursday, November 11, at …more»
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"Early Inventors of Photography"
Thu. 11/04 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman, historians, artists, and modern masters of the wet-plate collodion process, discuss the role of historical photographic processes in their work on&nbs…more»
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Poetry on the Plaza: Harmonica Bob: The Poetry of Bob Dylan
Mon. 11/01 | 12:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
The Harry Ransom Center presents the Poetry on the Plaza event Harmonica Bob: The Poetry of Bob Dylan on Wednesday, December 1, at noon. Thomas G. Palaima, Dickson Centennial Professor of Clas…more»
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“Civility in a Fractured Society”
Thu. 10/28 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
The University Co-op presents a Harry Ransom Lectures event with National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jim Leach on Thursday, October 28, at 7 p.m. Leach, who is visiting all 50 state…more»
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"The Lives and Work of Helmut and Alison Gernsheim"
Tue. 10/19 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
J. B. Colson, Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Fellow of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, and Roy Flukinger, Ransom Center Senior Research Curator, discuss the lives and work…more»
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A Conversation with Charles R. Larson
Thu. 10/14 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
Charles R. Larson of American University speaks about his collection of African, African American, and Native American literature, aquired by the Harry Ransom Center in 2009. Bernth Lindfors, …more»
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Poetry on the Plaza: "Actors from the London Stage: Greece is the Word"
Wed. 09/29 | 12:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
To kick off the 2010-11 Poetry on the Plaza season, the Harry Ransom Center presents the event "Greece is the Word." Paul O'Mahony, touring with Actors from the London Stage, reads excerpts fr…more»
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Curator's Tour of "Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection"
Thu. 09/16 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
David Coleman, the Ransom Center's curator of photography, leads a free gallery tour of "Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection." Drawn from the peerless collection …more»
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Consider the Archive: An Evening of David Foster Wallace
Tue. 09/14 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
The Harry Ransom Center commemorates the opening of the David Foster Wallace archive with readings of Wallace's work by writers and actors. Readers, including Elizabeth Crane, Doug Dorst, Owen…more»
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“Picture Perfect Evening"
Fri. 09/10 | 6:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
Join us for a "Picture Perfect Evening" to celebrate the opening of the exhibition "Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection." Guests will enjoy light hors d’oeu…more»
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Making Movies Film Series: Casino
Thu. 07/22 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
The Making Movies Film Series concludes at the Harry Ransom Center with Martin Scorsese’s Casino (1995), starring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci, on Thursday, July 22, at 7 …more»
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Casino
Thu. 07/22 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
CasinoMAKING MOVIES FILM SERIES THURSDAY, JULY 22, 7 P.M. Share this event The Making Movies Film Series concludes at the Harry Ransom Center with Martin Scorsese's Casino (…more»
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Austin Bat Cave Summer in the City
Fri. 07/16 | 12:00PM - Fri. 07/16 @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
The Austin Bat Cave proudly presents Summer in the City, a smorgasbord of art, theater, music and creative writing. Students have two weeks of camp to create, write and perform an hour-long pr…more»
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Making Movies Film Series: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Thu. 07/15 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
The Making Movies Film Series continues at the Harry Ransom Center with Mike Nichols’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, on Thur…more»
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Thu. 07/15 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?MAKING MOVIES FILM SERIES THURSDAY, JULY 15, 7 P.M. Share this event The Making Movies Film Series continues at the Harry Ransom Center with Mike Nichol…more»
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Making Movies Film Series: Detour
Thu. 07/08 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
The Making Movies Film Series continues at the Harry Ransom Center with Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour (1945), starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage, on Thursday, July 8, at 7 p.m. After his girlfr…more»
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Detour
Thu. 07/08 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
DetourMAKING MOVIES FILM SERIES THURSDAY, JULY 8, 7 P.M. Share this event The Making Movies Film Series continues at the Harry Ransom Center with Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (19…more»
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Making Movies Film Series: North by Northwest
Thu. 06/24 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
The Making Movies Film Series continues at the Harry Ransom Center with Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959), starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, on Thursday, June 24, at 7 …more»
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North by Northwest
Thu. 06/24 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
North by NorthwestMAKING MOVIES FILM SERIES THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 7 P.M. Share this event The Making Movies Film Series continues at the Harry Ransom Center with Alfred Hitchcock's …more»
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The Thrill of the Chase: An Evening with Ransom Center Director Tom Staley
Wed. 06/23 | 6:30PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
The Thrill of the Chase:An Evening with Ransom Center Director Tom StaleyMEMBER EVENT WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 6:30 P.M. Share this event At this members-only celebration, Tom Staley will …more»
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Black Narcissus
Thu. 06/17 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
Black NarcissusMAKING MOVIES FILM SERIES THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 7 P.M. Share this event The Making Movies Film Series continues at the Harry Ransom Center with Black Narcissus (…more»
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Making Movies Film Series: Duel in the Sun
Thu. 06/10 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
The Harry Ransom Center kicks off its Making Movies Film Series with King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun (1946), featuring Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck, on Thursday, June 10, at 7 p.m. This…more»
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Making Movies Film Series: Black Narcissus
Thu. 06/10 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
The Making Movies Film Series continues at the Harry Ransom Center with Black Narcissus (1947), starring Deborah Kerr and David Farrar, and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, o…more»
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Duel in the Sun
Thu. 06/10 | 7:00PM @ Harry Ransom Center (map)
Duel in the SunMAKING MOVIES FILM SERIES THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 7 P.M. Share this event The Harry Ransom Center kicks off its Making Movies Film Series with King Vidor'sDuel in the Sun&nb…more»
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