Location: Cleveland
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10 Museums in Cleveland That You Shouldn't Miss
Whether rocking out to music legends inside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or viewing Monets and Picassos at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland is a city that mixes equal parts grit and sophistication. Nosh award-winning food in historic buildings, tip back some craft beers amid a Lake Erie beach party or cheer on a championship team with a hardball of locally distilled spirits. All in Cleveland.
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1. Cleveland Museum of Art
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 3,468 reviews
The Cleveland Museum of Art creates transformative experiences through art, “for the benefit of all the people forever.” The Cleveland Museum of Art is renowned for the quality and breadth of its collection, which includes more than 61,000 objects and spans 6,000 years of achievement in the arts. The museum is a significant international forum for exhibitions, scholarship, and performing arts. One of the top comprehensive art museums in the nation and free of charge to all, the Cleveland Museum of Art is located in the dynamic University Circle neighborhood.
Reviewed By journeymaid48 - Fairport, United States
This was a tremendous pleasure to tour this museum again. The collections and the buildings are wonderful. The list of artists represented there is amazing including, Caravaggio, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Constable, Whistler, Goya, El Greco, Thomas Cole, Gilbert Stuart, John Singer Sargent, Charles Wilson Peale, Monet, Courbet, Caillebotte, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Rosseau, Seurat, Pissarro, Matisse, Diego Rivera, Picasso, Braque, Dali, Magritte, Max Ernest, Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Miro, Calder and so many others! A definite half day or longer experience. If visiting Cleveland please stop and admire these wonderful works.
2. The Paul Duda Gallery
3. WOLFS
4. Spaces
5. Framed Gallery
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
6. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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4.5 based on 9,466 reviews
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is alive with the energy, passion and the spirit of music we celebrate. The 150,000 square-foot museum features seven floors, four theaters for films and ever-changing exhibits. Get a front row feeling for 30+ years of induction performance highlights through the all-new Power of Rock Experience. You can spend as little as an hour, or up to an entire day exploring all the Rock Hall's exhibits. Right here in Cleveland, Ohio, you will find the only museum devoted to the story of rock and roll! Photos and video encouraged!
Reviewed By boscobrand - Stamford, United States
Held our attention all the way through. Great exhibits & memorabilia showcase music history, highlighting guitars & items from the private collections of legends, and presentations that immerse you in concert like experiences. They also have live bands on occasion too. We will be back with the rest of the family.
7. Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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4.5 based on 586 reviews
This innovative museum carries out its mission to "help people discover and explore the natural world" through a series of displays involving everything from dinosaur bones to astrological equipment plus "Lucy," one of the oldest skeletons of humanity's earliest ancestors.
Reviewed By heatherj189 - Saint Paul, United States
I found the front desk to be informative and helpful. The museum was on the upper end $ wise for its size but I was satisfied. The added $3 each for the planetarium show. I wouldn’t recommend that if you are noise adverse. The smaller kids talked throughout, and whenever they moved in their chair the entire row moved. Now the museum it self had a very wide variety of exhibits. Seriously if you didn’t find several to interest you- you hate information. There were live animal exhibits and stuffed animal exhibits. Lots of interactive areas, and information presented in several methods. The cafeteria was the same company as the art museum. I can say that I had the chicken parakesh- lovely! It was $9.00, but I’ve had some seriously bad food at museums. Also all of it was on recyclable wear. I am willing to pay extra for that! I also enjoyed the gift shop- another very pleasant person helped us there. Most gift shops have the same as every place else- this added to the base. I recommend this museum!
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9. Dittrick Museum of Medical History
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4.5 based on 35 reviews
Reviewed By 242lynnh - West Seneca, United States
This free museum on the grounds of Case Western had so much information and artifacts from medical history. Lots of information on the history of women’s health and general Health from the 1850s and into more modern times There were so many things to look at I’d recommend a minimum of 2 hours.
10. Dunham Tavern Museum
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4.5 based on 11 reviews
A former stagecoach stop, Dunham Tavern Museum is the oldest building in Cleveland still standing on its original foundation. Get a glimpse of pioneer life in the Western Reserve on Wed. & Sun., 1-4pm and other days by appt.
