Digital Innovations

Create. Engage. Connect.

At the CMA, we create transformative experiences that make art matter, connecting visitors to our collection through scholarship, innovation, and fun. We invite you to connect online and in person with masterworks of art through our groundbreaking digital tools, including our ArtLens AI, open access collection, and photogrammetry. 

Transforming the Art Museum Experience

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    AI Collection Tool Sets

    Pintoricchio Magnified: An Immersive Conservation Experience

    Through a digital immersive experience, step into the conservation studio and get a behind-the-scenes look at the materials and techniques conservators use to preserve paintings in the CMA collection.
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    ArtLens Gallery

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      Our New Lobby Digital Signage

      Accompanying the lobby’s redesign is a stunning 20-foot digital display that redefines the way you experience the museum. This high-performance video wall showcases the full spectrum of CMA’s offerings.
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      Digital Process: The Story of the Cleveland Krishna

      Through two sculptural and four digital galleries, Revealing Krishna transports visitors to the dramatic floodplains of southern Cambodia and tells the life story of the CMA’s monumental sculpture Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan, spanning 1,500 years and three continents. The exhibition unveils the...
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      Into the Seven Jeweled Mountain: An Immersive Experience

      Journey into the Seven Jeweled Mountain, surrounded by vivid animation inspired by a 19th-century folding screen that illustrates the mountain’s striking scenery.
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      Open Access

      The Cleveland Museum of Art is proud to be an open access institution, offering the public the ability to download, share, collaborate, remix, and reuse images and metadata of public-domain artworks from the museum’s collection.

      The year 2024 marks the fifth anniversary of the CMA’s open access collection. The online collection has been viewed six million times on its website, its API has been downloaded 45 million times, and its collections have been viewed nearly 300 million times on Wikimedia platforms. The CMA’s open access initiative has reached millions of users, serving the museum's mission to “create transformative experiences through art for the benefit of all the people forever.”

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      Measuring Impact

      Since 2019, we have been collecting data across multiple platforms to gather insights about how the public interacts with our collection. The virtual collection dashboards share out information about interactions with the CMA artwork via Collection Online, open access API, and Wikimedia. 

      Virtual Dashboards
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      Explore with ArtLens App

      Discover our collection in a whole new way with the ArtLens App. The app transforms your visit; download it before arriving, plan your visit, and create or browse tours. While visiting, use the interactive map to navigate the museum, and keep track of your favorite artworks. 

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      Our Redesigned Website

      Welcome to our new site! We’ve built it to grow with the museum and are continuing to work on functionality and design, creating an inclusive user experience, for the benefit of all.
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