Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

This place is amazing. This amount of amazing historical materials and photo collections they have is so educational.
I have personally enjoyed the events they put on talking about the collections they have acquired with the people or person who originated them.
This is department is a huge asset not only to UT but for everyone seeking knowledge.

Interesting small Museum at the LBJ school. Rotating exhibits from collections of famous photographers, journalists and authors focusing on US history, politics and change. Texas's past is generally emphasized. Free parking in the LBJ Museum lot, a great double stop.

Focuses on the works and work papers of famous folks, writers etc. Rotating shows featuring history from the viewpoint, work activity of writers, artists.

Olmec head replica impressive. Definitely worthwhile to visit.

I can only share my experience as someone who attended a lecture at the center, but I can say that all that was hosted and the area we were in was very nice. The staff that was there was very attentive and they provided an excellent location for a lecture series on some architectural history.

Overall, the Briscoe center is a very interesting building that's incredibly long and lies behind the LBJ library when looking at it from the campus area and the hill on the tower. The building is in wonderful shape and the museum section that I got to tour also was very interesting and was mostly about the civil rights era. The architectural group was there for a half day series that included a lunch and everybody who attended had a very nice time. It was top-notch facilities and like I said the staff were very friendly and helpful and the environment was very conducive to a great presentation and event. Highly recommend this for a place to host a lecture and on a lesser note, it looks like a wonderful place to spend some time looking around along with going to the LBJ library.

Place is horrible. They have to many restrictions just to enter. No one wants to sign up and register for an account and fill out all types of forms just to go in and obtain information that should be readily accepted and available to patrons. Then the lag time in requesting information and someone having to go and get it which takes an additional amount of time that adds to your wait. They need better structure and management here that will allow for better service and better use of time. Regular libraries and museums don't have all of these added problems because they allow visitors access to all the materials and catalogs they have in their facility. This place could learn from them. We more than likely will not return here since we experience such level of difficulty and had to wait do long for requested information.

Small, but interesting exhibits. When I was there, the main exhibition was a chronological examination of how the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki experienced the atomic bombings via contemporaneous photos, first-hand accounts, and some of the detritus on display.