Home Is Where the Art Is

AI: Share Your View

Upload an image from your device to see matches from the collection. If you find a good match, add it to the gallery to share it with the world.
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Virtual Events

The CMA is proud to offer a variety of virtual events to members and the public. Join curators, educators, and other invited guests in live online discussions, or dance the night away at a virtual MIX party. Click the link below to see a list of upcoming events.

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AI: ArtLens for Slack

ArtLens for Slack shares the CMA’s world-class collection and lets you and your coworkers curate a new exhibition, unique to your company every work day.
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#CMAConservation Series

#CMAConservation is a new series showing the important work of the Museum's conservation department. Check back each month for new installments.

Learn About #CMAConservation
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Collection Online

Access every object in the CMA’s collection, more than 61,000 artwork records, like never before. Explore high-resolution images and in-depth interpretive content. Search for works with videos or 3D models, and learn more with up to 36 fields of metadata for each object, including provenance, exhibition history, and citations. Take advantage of the CMA’s powerful advanced search options to find new favorites in the collection. 

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The Cleveland Museum of Art's collection online.

ArtLens App

Turn your smartphone into a pocket guide to the CMA with ArtLens App. Use it as a companion within the museum or as a way to explore and create from home.
Download ArtLens App
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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.
Open Access

Behind the Beat

This interview series features composers and performers and celebrates the legacy of music at the museum and uniquely illuminates aspects of the museum’s collection.
Explore the Series

Desktop Dialogues

Listen as curators, educators, community leaders, artists, and others offer new ways to look at and understand artworks, special exhibitions, and museum-specific issues.

Learn About Desktop Dialogues
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Engage and Create

Explore your curiosity and practice your creative thinking skills with fun, playful activities and challenges inspired by works of art from the CMA’s collection. All experiences can be enjoyed from home. 

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Explore the Keithley Gift

Just before the museum closed its doors in March 2020, the CMA recieved a transformative gift of over 100 artworks from the collection of Joseph and Nancy Keithley. Explore this unique gift on our collection online, watch videos from CMA’s curators, and download a screensaver or wallpaper to your computer. 

Explore the Gift
A horizontally oriented oil painting made of thick, rhythmic dabs of paint depicts a vibrant harbor. In the lower left, a triangular white pier points toward shimmering water filled with mosaic-like patches of blue, purple, and green. Several small boats with orange masts float in the center. In the background, rolling pink and white hills rise above orange-roofed houses on the right under a pale, dappled sky.

Instagram Filters

Try the CMA's Instagram filters, a fun way to share art from our collection and tag the Cleveland Museum of Art (@clevelandmuseumofart) for the opportunity to be featured in CMA's Instagram Story. It takes just a few simple steps to access the filters from your personal Instagram account. Below are some instructions for anyone that might need them. 

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Ingalls Library and Museum Archives

The Ingalls Library and Museum Archives are the research center of the museum. We are open to the public and ready to help with your art historical research. With more than 580,000 volumes and extensive electronic resources, the Ingalls Library is one of the largest and most comprehensive art resear...

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Blog: CMA Thinker

Check out our blog CMA Thinker, recognized as a top art blog on Medium and PR Newswire, to read stories from the Cleveland Museum of Art discussing art from another angle. Dive deeper into one artwork with stories from curators, go behind the scenes with our conservators, and explore the inner workings of how the museum shares our collection with our visitors digitally.

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