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In the historic Brackenridge Park about three miles north of downtown San Antonio along the elegant Broadway corridor, the Witte Museum is one of the largest and most heavily visited natural-history and cultural-history museums in Texas. The museum opened in October 1926 with a small collection of natural-history specimens housed in a former dwelling on the park's eastern edge, the result of a generous bequest by the German-American philanthropist Ellen Witte, whose 1923 will endowed the city wi...