Expanded in 2010 with the completion of the stunning, glass-and-steel West Building, this superb museum stands 6 miles west of downtown. Ranging far and wide, from ancient Egypt to modern Africa, its permanent collection includes works credited to Giotto and Botticelli – albeit with "assistance" – and even a 17th-century "Golf Player" etched by Rembrandt. The museum also holds around 20 jet-black Rodin bronzes, and a gallery celebrating alumni of the pioneering Black Mountain College near Asheville, including Robert Rauschenberg.
Look out for Michael Richards' sculpture of a Tuskegee airman pierced by airplanes, which hauntingly prefigured Richards' own death in the 9/11 attacks.
