Harry Ransom Center
A free museum of rare books and manuscripts, with a Gutenberg Bible and the world's first photograph.
- Open
- Closed Mondays; check the website
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 45 minutes
- Address
- 300 W 21st St, Austin, TX 78712Google MapsApple Maps
- Getting There
- On the UT campus.
Why Go
The University of Texas's research library holds the papers of writers from Edgar Allan Poe to Gabriel García Márquez. Always on display are one of the few complete Gutenberg Bibles and Nicéphore Niépce's view from a window, made around 1826.
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