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On San Antonio's celebrated River Walk, just steps from the Alamo, the Briscoe Western Art Museum is the only major institution in the city dedicated to the art, history and culture of the American West. Opened in October 2013 in the elegantly restored 1930 Hertzberg Library building, the museum was conceived by a coalition of local civic and business leaders, including its namesake former governor, as a long-overdue celebration of the region's frontier heritage. The collection spans roughly tw...

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