Great Museums of the University

The University of Texas quietly holds one of the richest concentrations of museums in the country, scattered across the Forty Acres. This loop hops between six of them: the nation's largest university art museum, a humanities center guarding a Gutenberg Bible, contemporary galleries in the old Art Building, a collection devoted to the history of physical strength tucked inside the football stadium, a natural-history museum full of dinosaurs, and a president's archive that doubles as a window on 1960s America. It is a short drive but a wide range — Old Masters to fossils to barbells to the papers of a presidency — all within a single campus, and a reminder of how much a great public university collects and keeps.