Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200

Look for

• Jenny Holzer's HEAP

  Seven LED signs cycle through truisms and inflammatory messages, and Time Out says they pull visitors in like moths to a flame.

• Robert Frank's Coney Island, July 4, 1958

  Photographs from a single Independence Day at the beach, which Time Out found unusually melancholy for the place.

• Lafayette's cornerstone

  The first stone of the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library, the museum's origin, laid by Lafayette while a young Walt Whitman watched.

• Francis Guy's Winter Scene in Brooklyn

  Snow on the rooftops and smoke curling from chimneys under a foggy grey sky, painted and acquired in 1846.

• The Bechers' water towers

  German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher's late-1970s photographs of the water towers on New York's rooftops.

Good for

• Cheap Culture
• Nerding Out
• Rainy Days

Skip if

You want a focused single-artist show: this is over 220 objects split across three separate chapters.

With kids

Visitors 19 and under get in free. One photo series documents an activist's self-immolation in Prospect Park, so check that room before bringing younger kids through.