Hotels near Blanton Museum of Art Austin

The Blanton Museum of Art was established in 1963. It is the art museum and research center of University of Texas under the College of Fine Arts. As the principal art museum in a major metropolitan area and state capital the Blanton Museum of Art is committed to be a welcoming place for all visitors, building a lively and engaged community of art lovers of all ages, and serving a gateway between the University, the city of Austin and the state. The museum houses some 17,000 works from Europe, the United States and Latin America. The American and Latin American collections of modern and contemporary American art is a significant resource of more than four thousand paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and works in new media from the mid-19th century to the present.

1. Day Visit to the Museum

The Latin American collection of modern and contemporary art now contains more than 1,800 paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures reflecting the great diversity of Latin American art and culture. It represented more than 600 artists from Mexico, South and Central America and the Caribbean. With such an enormous number of art collections, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin can be found right next to the Texas State History Museum making for a great day without too much walking around in the summer heat, and that's not all a number of Austin hotel can be found in the making it for the visitors more accessible. You may want to check online the lists of hotels around the museum.

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2. Hotels Available near the Blanton Museum of Art

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