Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art, Art museum in Wade Park, Cleveland, United States.
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
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 5, 2025 16:34
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