The Cleveland Museum of Art

Did you know that during the mummification process the organs of the human body were removed and preserved separately in canopic jars.

The tadpole is used to represent the number one hundred thousand in hieroglyphs.

The Cleveland Museum of Art owns what is believed to be the only complete table fountain remaining from the Middle Ages.

Over 500 people work at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The earliest sculpture of a woman in the CMA collection, called "The Stargazer," was made by a stone-age artist almost 5000 years ago.

The Cleveland Museum of Art has works by Claude Monet, Pierre August Renoir, and Edgar Degas - all famous Impressionist painters.

The Expressionist painter Paul Gauguin lived in Peru for the first six years of his life.

A coat of mail was useful to a knight in the middle ages because it was as strong as steel, but moves like cloth.

Horses sometimes wore armor too. In the museum's armor court you can find an example of of armor for a man and his horse.

In the Asian Galleries you will sometimes find the Hindu God Ganesha, who has the head of an elephant and the body of a man.