Elisabet Ney Museum

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Top 3% of attractions in Austin
8 / 10

5 expert reviews

“The German portrait sculptor Elisabet Ney made Austin her home in 1892. The studio and home became a museum after her death.”

– Condé Nast Traveler

Fodor's Fodor's
"The 19th century lives on at this delightfully eccentric museum, where German Romanticism meets the Texas frontier." Full review
Atlas Obscura Atlas Obscura
"Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio. " Full review
Time Out Time Out
"Completely free and open to the public, the Elisabet Ney Museum is the former studio and portrait collection of namesake Elisabet Ney, a 19th century German sculptor who moved to Austin in 1882." Full review
Frommer's Frommer's
"The works showcased here today are a variety of working studies, including an enormous plaster cast of Lady Macbeth...museum also holds Ney’s collection of studio portraits of European dignitaries" Full review