Austin Axis Guide to Museums

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Austin Children's Museum

1501 West Fifth Street

Austin, Texas

Tel: (512) 472-2499

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Elizabet Ney Museum

304 East 44th

Austin, Texas 78751

Tel: (512) 458-2255

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John Reynolds (11/15/95)

Elizabet Ney was a noted German sculptress who moved to Austin in the late 1800's. Her most widely known sculptures in Austin include the likenesses of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin in the Capital Building, and the tomb of Confederate General Johnston(?) at the State Cemetery.

The museum is housed in a "Victorian style" native stone building that Ney designed and built as a home and studio. It was one of the first buildings in the new Austin suburb of Hyde Park, and its grounds still give one a feel of how Austin once was. Take some time to stroll around the grounds, especially "out back" behind the house, and think about what it must of been like when this neighborhood was "way out" in the sticks.

Exhibits at the Ney include the plaster models she prepared for her major works, personal posessions, and photographs and maps of early Hyde Park. Be sure to climb up the narrow staircases to the third floor "office" where her husband hid out while she was working :-)

Closely associated with the museum is the Elizabet Ney Sculpture Conservatory. This is positively one of the best places in Austin for aspiring sculpters and artists to take lessons. Evening and day classes are periodically offered in sculpting with clay, stone, bronze and concrete, and in drawing the human figure. Call (512)371-7606 for a current schedule of classes.

French Legation Museum

802 San Marcos Street

Austin, Texas

Tel: (512) 472-8180

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George Washington Carver Museum

1165 Algelina

Austin, Texas 78702

Tel: (512) 472-4809

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Laguna Gloria Art Museum

3809 W. 35th Street

Austin, Texas

Tel: (512) 458-8191

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Lorenzo de Zabala Archives & Library

1201 Brazos Street

Austin, Texas

Tel: (512) 463-5493

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Lyndon B. Johnson Library & Museum

2313 Red River

Austin, Texas

Tel: (512) 482-5279

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Neill-Cochran Museum House

2310 San Gabriel Street

Austin, Texas

Tel: (512) 478-2335

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O Henry Museum

409 East 5th Street

Austin, Texas 78702

Tel: (512) 472-1903

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Texas Memorial Museum

2400 Trinity Street

University of Texas

Austin, Texas

Tel: (512) 471-4604

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Umlauf Museum & Sculpture Garden

605 Robert E. Lee

Austin, Texas 78704

Tel: (512) 445-5582

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John Reynolds (11/15/95)

The Umlauf Sculpture Garden is a great place to spend an hour or so whenever the weather makes you feel like being outside. For the price of admission ($4 for adults?), you can stroll among several of Umlauf's works strategically placed in natural settings around a small pond and brook.

Umlauf celebrated the human figure, primarilly the female figure, and the majority of his pieces are bronze nudes. If you are in to abstract sculpture, or offended by nudity, this is not the place for you.

Inside the museum building are many of his more delicate works, including studies of his wife and his most noted model, Farrah Fawcette. His larger than life sculpture of "Eve" is particularly impressive. Exhinits are rotated frequently.

Photographs are allowed in the sculpture garden, but prohibited inside the museum building.

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