Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art is an art museum in Wade Park, Cleveland, United States, holding over 45,000 works representing 6,000 years of human creativity. The collection spreads across multiple departments and galleries, showing painting, sculpture, decorative objects, textiles, and art from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

The institution was founded in 1913 with funds from several backers, including Hinman Hurlbut and John Huntington, and opened to the public in 1916. Over the decades the building grew through several expansions that added new galleries and public spaces.

The name reflects the city's long relationship with the visual arts, and visitors can see local people coming to sketch or spend quiet time in the galleries. Many of the rooms bear the names of collectors whose gifts shaped the collection, and the atrium often has guests sitting on benches looking up into the open space.

Admission is free for all visitors, and the institution opens at 10 AM and closes at 5 PM on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, with extended hours until 9 PM on Wednesdays and Fridays. Most galleries are on a single level or accessible by elevator, making it easy to explore without climbing stairs.

The collection holds a bronze sculpture of Apollo Sauroktonos, acquired in 2004, which scholars believe may be an original work by Praxiteles of Athens dating to 350 to 250 BC. The piece shows the young god striking at a lizard with a stick, and it is considered one of the rare surviving Greek bronzes from that period.

Location: Cleveland

Inception: 1913

Founders: Hinman B. Hurlbut, John Huntington, Horace Kelley, Jeptha Wade, Jeptha Homer Wade II

Architects: Marcel Breuer, Hubbell & Benes, Rafael Viñoly

Official opening: 1913

Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible

Fee: No

Address: 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44106

Opening Hours: Sunday,Tuesday,Thursday,Saturday 10:00-17:00; Wednesday,Friday 10:00-21:00 || January 1,July 4, December 25 off

Phone: +12164217350

Website: https://clevelandart.org

GPS coordinates: 41.50889,-81.61167

Latest update: December 13, 2025 19:32