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Elisabet Ney Museum vs University of Texas at Austin

Both are highly recommended by reviewers writing for major publications. Overall, Elisabet Ney Museum ranks slightly better than University of Texas at Austin. Elisabet Ney Museum scores 82 with accolades from 4 sources such as Fodor's, Lonely Planet and Frommer's.

Elisabet Ney Museum
Elisabet Ney Museum
8 / 10
304 E 44th St, Austin, TX 78751
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Fodor's Fodor's
"The 19th century lives on at this delightfully eccentric museum, where German Romanticism meets the Texas frontier." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler
"The German portrait sculptor Elisabet Ney made Austin her home in 1892. The studio and home became a museum after her death." 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
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
7 / 10
Guadalupe and I-35, Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and 26th St., Austin, TX
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Fodor's Fodor's
"The 350-acre campus breeds Texas Longhorns, as passionate about football (and other sports) as they are about academics (it has one of the country's top research libraries)." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"The student union building of the University of Texas at Austin serves as a hub of activity for the more than 50,000 students enrolled in the school." Full review
Atlas Obscura Atlas Obscura
"A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus. " Full review
Frommer's Frommer's
"In 1883, the 221 students and eight teachers who made up the newly established University of Texas in Austin had to meet in makeshift classrooms in the town's temporary capitol." Full review