The sculpture garden and The Art School remain open to the public. This 1926 structure is the first neighborhood museum in the State of Texas dedicated to African-American history and culture. Formerly Austin's first main library, moved to East Austin in 1933 as a branch library, and received a Texas State Historical Marker in 1976. A special collections library, archives, and museum that facilitates research and sponsors programs on historical development of the United States. Call for schedule.
Gift shop features unique finds from around the country.
Closed major holidays. Rotating schedule of exhibitions features artworks in all media and subject matter. The Blanton is one of the foremost university art museums in the country and the leading art museum serving the city of Austin. The Museum s permanent collection includes more than 13,000 works of art and spans the history of Western civilization, from antiquity to the present, with strong holdings of European art from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, nineteenth and twentieth-century American art, contemporary Latin American art, and an encyclopedic collection of prints and drawings. Selections from the permanent collection are on view at the HRC, 21st and Guadalupe.