John B.
Yelp
This is a magnificent structure of historic buildings intertwined by an indoor courtyard. What fills it is impressive, too. The drawbacks are that while free, it has paid parking. There's plenty of parking in the general area, some free, but it was an unhappy surprise for me.
The more substantial issue is that while the art itself was great, the captions often betrayed a sort of craven idiocy, with mealymouthed statements about how they were trying to figure out what to do with some of their illegitimately obtained African artifacts, or how no one really knows who the Egyptian people are, or how none of the indigenous peoples of the Americas have any words for art. It's just hard not to notice this stuff, and it's concerning both in that not everyone will recognize it as nonsense, and in that I'm not all-knowing either, so I probably unknowingly bought into some BS as well. So while I found the art itself thought-provoking, I had to actively try and avoid whatever spin was being put on it.
The collections were quite global and contained a variety of historically interesting pieces. A paid exhibition on Renaissance Europe was going on in the basement, but it sounded less interesting than the halls full of mythology and history. There were opportunities to poke one's head outdoors or to get some sunlight indoors. An interactive high-tech room had things like a vision tracker where you look at a painting and the computer tells you where your eyes went on the image and for how long.
Thankfully, I think the art is what I'll remember.