With more than 580,000 volumes and extensive electronic resources, the Ingalls Library is one of the country’s largest and most comprehensive art historical research libraries. It serves curators, conservators, scholars, students, and the public and is an essential component of the museum’s mission. Your support helps the CMA safeguard and grow its holdings, expanding access for all.
Gifts to the Library League begin at $5,000 and support the combined resources of the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives, serving to assist museum staff in the researching and planning of exhibitions, programming, publications, and acquisitions.
The combined resources of the library and archives serve to assist museum staff in the researching and planning of exhibitions, programming, publications, and acquisitions. In addition to research and archival work, our library also houses rare books and manages book preservation, digitization, and open access initiatives. The Ingalls Library and Museum Archives serve academic communities, museum members, and the public in advancing art historical research of a scholarly or personal nature. Moreover, the library is integral to the CMA-CWRU joint program in art history and provides invaluable assistance to artists, docents, collectors, teachers, and scholars everywhere through the museum’s open access initiatives.
The Ingalls Library and Museum Archives are an indispensable resource of the CMA and one of the museum’s top strategic priorities. This fund supports their critical work, including such important initiatives as endowing several needed positions in the library; funding a strategic initiative to digitize, catalogue, and add historic photonegatives of objects in the museum collection, important documents, and papers of Cleveland’s artists; and prioritizing the acquisition of research materials on diverse artists. Gifts to the Library League enable the library to continue its critical work and help the Cleveland Museum of Art maintain its global reputation as a research center.
To learn more about how to support the Library League, please contact philanthropy@clevelandart.org.
Ways to Give
Mail contributions to the following:
Member and Donor Center
The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106Call 216-421-7350.
Visit clevelandart.org/donate.
We can work with your broker to arrange a gift of stock, which may allow you to avoid capital gains tax.
For Transferring/Depositing Gifts of Stock to the Cleveland Museum of ArtTax ID: 34-0714336
To Deliver Securities (Depository Eligible Securities-DTC)
PNC Bank
DTC#: 2616
Reference: CLE MUS ART – Stock Gifts 21-75-073-6917164For Stock Gift Inquiries
PNC Bank
Administrator: S. Ross Martin
Phone: 412-442-8772
Fax: 800-449-7382
Important notice for both stock and wire transfers: Please notify the department of donor records at the Cleveland Museum of Art (216-707-6878 or giftentry@clevelandart.org) in order to be certain that your gift is applied timely, as intended, and that you receive appropriate acknowledgment.Additional questions may be directed to the Cleveland Museum of Art:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797Jessica Hubbard
Manager of Donor Records
216-707-2562
jhubbard@clevelandart.orgRuss Klimczuk
Assistant Treasurer and Director of Finance
216-707-2247
Fax: 216-707-6570
rklimczuk@clevelandart.orgFor Transferring/Depositing Cash Gifts Directly into the CMA Account at a Financial Institution
To Submit Wire Transfer
KeyBank NA
Routing Number: 041001039
Wire Transfer Account: 10986965For Wire Transfer Inquiries
Wire Coordinator: Robert Neumann
Phone: 216-689-7510Important note for both stock and wire transfers: Please notify the department of donor records at the Cleveland Museum of Art (216-707-6878 or giftentry@clevelandart.org) in order to be certain that your gift is applied timely, as intended, and that you receive appropriate acknowledgment.
Additional questions may be directed to the Cleveland Museum of Art:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797Jessica Hubbard
Manager of Donor Records
216-707-2562
jhubbard@clevelandart.orgRuss Klimczuk
Assistant Treasurer and Director of Finance
216-707-2247
Fax: 216-707-6570
rklimczuk@clevelandart.orgDonors 70½ or older can make a gift directly from an IRA due to the permanent extension of the IRA charitable rollover provision.
Donors can make a donation through a charitable trust, foundation, or donor-advised fund.
Thank you to our current Library League supporters as of April 15, 2026: Principal annual support is provided by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Kisvardai and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Thompson. Major annual support is provided by an anonymous donor. Generous annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Dr. Pauline Degenfelder and Mr. Joseph R. Degenfelder, Ms. Karen Eterovich-Maguire, Linda Harper, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Bill and Joyce Litzler, Sarah Nash, Courtney and Michael Novak, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, the Pickering Foundation, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, in memory of Dee Schafer, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, Paula and Eugene Stevens, Jack and Jeanette Walton, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.