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Austin's Elisabet Ney Museum wins $150,000 grant to preserve site

The Elizabet Ney Museum was one of the 13 sites that won a share of the $2 million grant.

AUSTIN, Texas — Editor's Note: The video attached is for a related story back in January 2019.

Historical site Elisabet Ney Museum has been awarded $150,000 from the 2019 Partners in Preservation: Main Streets grant by The National Trust for Historic Preservation. 

The Elisabet Ney Museum site is one of the only southwest sites to be selected. The museum celebrates the life and work of Elisabet Ney, who was a famed sculptor, intellectual, a gender non-conformist and a democracy activist.

The nationwide campaign showcases the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, by engaging the public in preserving historic places.

The museum competed with 19 other historic sites through a public voting campaign for a share of $2 million in preservation funding from American Express. More than 1 million votes were cast online and at on-site events across the country.

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Over the past 13 years, the program has provided more than $25 million in support of more than 250 historic sites across the United States and has engaged more than a million people.

The Friends of the Ney support group has announced “Through These Doors” as the campaign’s theme, focusing on access, inclusion, women’s rights, immigration and voter's rights.

“We seek to honor those who walked ‘Through These Doors’ by restoring all 18 exterior doors of Formosa, an iconic 19th-century woman artist’s home and studio in Austin," said Oliver Franklin, museum site coordinator. “Worn and fragile, plain but grand, they welcome the outsider graciously, as they did a century ago. Important artwork was made here, but so was Elisabet’s brilliant legacy: the birth of Austin’s independent spirit.”

The Elisabet Ney Museum is a property of the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department.

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