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Explore stories inspired by the collections of writers and artists held at the Ransom Center, one of the leading humanities research libraries in the world.

Conservation

We provide a full range of preventive care and conservation treatments. Read stories about conservators and preservation technicians assessing and caring for collection materials.

It is one thing for the Ransom Center to collect the papers of Nobel Laureates and another thing entirely to collect the papers of future Nobel Laureates.

Ransom Center Director Stephen Enniss on the archive of KAZUO ISHIGURO

In the galleries

The exhibition Vaudeville! runs January 29 to July 15. It features the Ransom Center’s extensive holdings of Harry Houdini, Tony Pastor, and Florenz Ziegfeld, among others, to show the development of vaudeville’s highly organized form and its long-lasting impact on contemporary film, television, and comedy.