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the National Park Service, selected the Ney as an Official
Project and awarded $250,000 to restore the historical
integrity of the building and landscape as created by Elisabet
Ney during her residence at the site from 1892 to her
death in 1907.
Plans are currently underway to select qualified, registered building and landscape architects with extensive experience in historic preservation to create a Comprehensive Preservation Master Plan for the restoration. The planning process will include opportunities for public input together with requisite board and commission approvals. A Restoration Campaign Committee of community leaders has been established to assist. An Elisabet Ney Museum Restoration Fund has been established with the Austin Community Foundation to receive private gifts and contributions for the restoration. Funding support for the comprehensive restoration is currently provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, National Park Service, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Henry Luce Foundation, Texas Historical Commission, City of Austin and private donors. The museum works closely with the University of Texas School of Architecture and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center on all preservation and collection- related issues. The HRHRC owns the collection of Elisabet Ney portraits and personal memorabilia |
displayed and housed at the Ney. The museum is administered
by the Austin Parks and Recreation Department
Cultural Affairs Division.
Founded in 1911 by Elisabet Ney's friends to preserve the memory of Elisabet Ney and to cultivate an appreciation for art in Texas, the Elisabet Ney Museum continues in that spirit today. In addition to organizing lectures, programs and special events throughout the year in support of its mission, the museum partners with many cultural organizations in Austin to co-produce programs, most held on the museum's grounds, to cultivate the legacy of Elisabet Ney. Past partners have included the Austin Lyric Opera, Austin Shakespeare Festival and the Austin Children's Museum, among others. Over 13,000 people annually visit Ney's studio in Austin's historic Hyde Park. They come from throughout the state and nation and many international countries as well as locally. The museum is listed in all the major travel guides to Austin, and has been featured in numerous national publications over the last decade. Each year, over 2000 schoolchildren take part in the museum's award - winning outreach program that includes an educational tour of Elisabet Ney's former building and grounds as her historic studio, and as one of Texas's oldest and most beloved museums.
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