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  1. Cleveland Museum of Art, major American museum that houses one of the country’s finest art collections. It was incorporated in 1913 and opened in 1916. The museum has objects from virtually all major cultures and periods. Highlights include part of the Guelph Treasure and the Apollo Sauroktonos.

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  2. Feb 22, 2020 · William Mathewson Milliken was the director of the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1930 to 1958. Before becoming the director he organized the museum’s first May Show. It later became a juried exhibition for regional artists annually held at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1919 to 1993.

  3. The Cleveland Museum of Art was founded in 1913 “for the benefit of all the people forever”. The museum opened on June 6, 1916, after many years of planning. Its creation was made possible by Cleveland industrialists Hinman B. Hurlbut, John Huntington, and Horace Kelley, all of whom bequeathed money specifically for an art museum, as well ...

  4. The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It has art objects from all over the world from Ancient times to the present. The building opened in 1916.

  5. “From the very beginning, it was important to our founders that we provide access to art from all over the world. The museum has always been free and open to the public, helping a broad audience to understand and engage with great art.

  6. A spate of influential art museum openings in the 1880s helped ignite local interest in securing a museum for Cleveland. In 1880 President Rutherford B. Hayes dedicated the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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    The Cleveland Museum of Art is one of the foremost art museums in the world, having outstanding collections of Pre-Columbian, medieval European, and Asian art. It opened to the public in 1916 on Jeptha H. Wade's Wade Park property in University Circle.