Elisabet Ney Museum closed for landscape renovation

Courtesy Planning Ahead, Austin  Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:09pm

The Elisabet Ney Museum — the charming, quirky Hyde Park home and studio of the famed German-borb sculptress — will close for six to eight weeks while its grounds undergo an historic landscape restoration project to bring them back to the natural state they were in during the artist’s Austin life (1892-1907).

The free-spirited Ney came to Texas’ capital city and established a studio where she sculpted the “great men” of frontier Texas as she called them: Stephen F....


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