Supersized in San Antonio

Texans don’t call San Antonio’s Witte Museum the “people’s museum” to be folksy. Unlike many museums that come into being with a nice endowment from a wealthy family, the Witte had far humbler beginnings. While San Antonio saw itself as “thriving” in the 1920s, it lacked the kinds of cultural institutions that mark a great city. High school teacher Ellen Schulz was determined to change that. She took her idea of a museum to community leaders, who asked her, “What is a museum