Harry Ransom Center

Harry Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center in June 2012
30°17′04″N 97°44′28″W / 30.28444°N 97.74111°W / 30.28444; -97.74111
Location	Austin, Texas, U.S., US
Type	Academic library
Established	1957
Other information
Affiliation	University of Texas at Austin
Website	www.hrc.utexas.edu

The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities. The Ransom Center houses 36 million literary manuscripts, one million rare books, five million photographs, and more than 100,000 works of art.^[1]

The center has a reading room for scholars and galleries which display rotating exhibitions of works and objects from the collections. In the 2015–16 academic year, the center hosted nearly 6,000 research visits resulting in the publication of over 145 books.^[2]