Though it’s the country’s biggest art museum after the Met, with 1.5 million pieces and the largest Egyptian collection in the Americas, it sees far fewer visitors. The five-floor Beaux Arts building – built by McKim, Mead and White to be the world’s biggest museum in 1897 – is big, yet only a fifth of its originally planned size. Highlights are many. For much of the year, visitors linger by the museum’s glass esplanade entry to watch the fountains. Inside, the African Arts display (near the ground-floor cafe) offers several short video loops about fascinating traditional masks and costumes; the huge Egyptian collection on the 2nd floor features 13th-century mummy boards. Leave time for the 5th floor, where a few dozen Rodin sculptures are laid out, and look for the grab-bag of American art relics (eg the 1894 Thomas Edison film of the Sioux ‘Ghost Dance’). Temporary exhibits can be hit-or-miss – lots of urban, Americana and feminist art of late. Its free night – the first Saturday of the month – is a Brooklyn classic, with a wide turnout for free screenings, concerts and a wine/beer bar.