Editing Texas Tech University (section)

== Campus ==
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{{See also|List of Texas Tech University buildings|Texas Technological College Historic District}}
[[File:TTUSWlibrary.JPG|left|thumb|Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library]]
The Lubbock campus is home to the main academic university, law school, and medical school ([[Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center|Health Sciences Center]]). It is one of two institutions (the other being [[UT Austin]]) in Texas to have a graduate school, law school, and medical school on its main campus.<ref name="Texas Tech University3"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dellmed.utexas.edu/news/dell-medical-school-welcomes-its-first-class-another-major-milestone|title = Dell Medical School Welcomes Its First Class}}</ref> The campus has [[Architecture of the Spanish Renaissance|Spanish Renaissance architecture]].<ref name="Graduate Creative Writing Program"/><ref name="Pretty Texas Tech"/><ref name="Texas Tech... The Unobserved Heritage4"/><ref name="Touring Texas Tech's picturesque campus"/> Many buildings borrow architectural elements from those found at [[University of Alcalá|University de Alcalá]] in [[Alcalá de Henares]], Spain, and [[San Miguel de Aguayo, Texas|Mission San José]] in [[San Antonio]].<ref name="Texas Tech... The Unobserved Heritage5"/> A large section of the campus built between 1924 and 1951 is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] as the [[Texas Technological College Historic District]]. This area is roughly bounded by 6th Street on the north, University Avenue on the east, 19th Street on the south, and Flint Street on the west.<ref name="thcatlas"/>

In 1998, the [[Board of Regents of the Texas Tech University System]] created the Texas Tech University Public Art Collection to enliven the campus environment and extend the university's educational mission. It is funded by using one percent of the estimated total cost of each new building on campus.<ref name="University Public Art Collection"/> The collection features pieces from artists such as [[Tom Otterness]] and [[Glenna Goodacre]]. In 2020, ''Fodor's Travel'' ranked the Public Art Collection among the ten best outdoor museums in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|title=TTU System Public Art Collection Ranked Nationally as a Top-10 Outdoor Museum by Fodor’s Travel|url=https://www.texastech.edu/stories/20-12-public-art-ranking.php|publisher=Texas Tech University System|access-date=2024-11-30}}</ref>

The university also hosts the [[Museum of Texas Tech University]], which was founded in 1929 and is accredited by the [[American Alliance of Museums]].<ref name="Museum of Texas Tech Receives National Accreditation"/> The museum is home to over eight million objects and specimens and houses the Moody Planetarium, art galleries, a sculpture court, and a natural science research laboratory. It also operates the [[Val Verde County, Texas|Val Verde County]] research site and the [[Lubbock Lake Landmark]],<ref name="About the Museum"/> an archaeological site and natural history preserve in the city of Lubbock. The site has evidence of 12,000 years of use by ancient cultures on the [[Llano Estacado]] (Southern High Plains), and allows visitors to watch active archaeological digs. Visiting scientists and tourists may also participate in the discovery process. Lubbock Lake Landmark is a [[National Historic Landmark]], which lists it on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a designated State Archaeological Landmark.<ref name="Lubbock Lake Landmark"/> Texas Tech is also the location of the Southwest Collection historical archive and the sponsoring institution of the [[West Texas Historical Association]].<ref name="ttu6"/>
Located on the northern edge of the campus is the [[National Ranching Heritage Center]], a museum of ranching history. The site spans {{convert|27.5|acre|km2}} and is home to 38 historic structures that have been restored to their original condition. Structures represented at the center include a linecamp, a dugout, a bunkhouse, a blacksmith shop, a cowchip house, a schoolhouse, corrals, shipping pens, windmills, chuckwagons, and a coal-burning locomotive.<ref name="Museum & Historical Park"/>

{{Anchor|Libraries}}The university maintains a number of libraries, some general-purpose and some dedicated to specific topics such as architecture and law. Among the most notable of these are the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library and [[Vietnam Center and Archive|The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive]], the nation's largest and most comprehensive collection of information on the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="Vietnam Center and Archive Now Available Online"/> On August 17, 2007, the Vietnam Center and Archive became the first US institution to sign a formalized exchange agreement with the State Records and Archives Department of Vietnam. This opened the door for a two-way exchange between the entities.<ref name="Tech signs agreement with Vietnam for records"/><ref name="Texas Tech seals deal with Vietnam records office for war documents"/> In 2023, Texas Tech returned to the families of Vietnamese soldiers killed in battle their personal documents, which had been found on the battlefield by American soldiers.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Long Goodbye|url=https://today.ttu.edu/posts/2023/08/Stories/The-Long-Goodbye|publisher=Texas Tech University|access-date=2024-11-30}}</ref>
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