Elisabet Ney Museum

This Austin museum preserves the studio of Elisabet Ney, a 19th-century German-born sculptor who settled in Texas and produced portrait busts and statues of prominent figures, including works displayed in the state capitol. The castle-like limestone studio, built in the 1890s, holds plaster models and finished sculptures amid its Gothic-inspired towers. Ney was a pioneering woman artist and an eccentric figure in frontier Austin, and the atmospheric building reveals early Texas culture.