Cleveland Museum of Art

As a VENUE: Host your event…

Planning the perfect event is an art. Let us help you create something memorable. Astound your guests with a stunning space, delicious cuisine, and impeccable service. Enjoy flawless, one-of-a-kind events, from private to public, intimate to grand, personal to corporate, while surrounded by world-class art. Partake in fine locally grown food in made-from-scratch recipes featuring the best seasonal ingredients. Our attention to detail and superior execution will ensure your event is a success. The Museum’s gathering spaces are the perfect location for: * Meetings * Weddings * Private Dinners * Galas * Holiday Parties, and * more. Six distinctive spaces are available:

• The Ames Family Atrium: Designed by Rafael Viñoly, the Ames Family Atrium is the majestic centerpiece of the museum’s expansion and renovation project. The soaring, three-story-high ceiling accentuates the grandeur of the glass-enclosed space, in the heart of the museum’s world-renowned galleries. Anchored by the east and west planters, the atrium is a blank slate suitable for a diverse suite of gatherings. The full space can be rented for a large gathering, or a portion of the space can be rented for a more intimate event. Additionally, the south terrace can be rented with the atrium to host your wedding ceremony outside during warmer months. Ideal for events such as: * weddings * galas * corporate dinners and gatherings * holiday parties, and * bar/bat mitzvahs, the atrium features the restored marble façade of the museum’s original 1916 building, which can serve as an impressive backdrop for your function.
  • Capacity: Reception Style (100–2,000 guests) / Seated Dinner (100–900 guests)
  • 31,395 Square Feet (Can be partitioned for smaller events.)
• The Banquet Room: The Banquet Room is a unique, modern space located just off the Ames Family Atrium and adjacent to Provenance Restaurant and Provenance Café. Designed to accommodate both intimate events and larger gatherings, the room can be expanded into the restaurant or café. Accommodating up to 150 guests, the space is ideal for: * private dinners * cocktail receptions * intimate wedding receptions, and * other social gatherings and engagements. The Banquet Room features floor-to-ceiling windows along the exterior wall, allowing natural light to fill the space and providing panoramic views of the museum’s exterior landscaping
  • Capacity: Reception Style (up to 150 guests) / Seated Dinner (up to 100 guests)
  • 2,407 Square Feet
• The Private Dining Room features a floor-to-ceiling window wall that allows natural light in the room while highlighting the museum’s outdoor landscape. The space is ideal for: * corporate meetings * intimate dinners * receptions, and * other social gatherings.
  • Capacity: Reception Style (up to 100 guests) / Seated Dinner (up to 60 guests)
  • 1,470 Square Feet
• The Gartner Auditorium: The facility is ideal for: * corporate programs * concerts * dances, and * performances. The entrance is conveniently located just off the north lobby, which can be used to host your pre- or post-performance receptions. Additionally, the location provides quick and easy covered access to the attached parking garage for the comfort of your guests. The auditorium is equipped with a 20-x-40 foot projection screen, a projector, specialty lighting, and impressive acoustics to fit all your audiovisual requirements. The auditorium has both lower level and balcony seating in addition to the 67-x-22 foot stage, featuring the historical McMyler pipe organ (built in 1971). The museum’s production manager, media services team, and house manager will be happy to assist with any program or performance planning needs you may have. The convenient location of the hall in the museum’s lower level makes parking garage access quick and easy for your guests, and the museum’s media services team can help make your program or performance planning a snap. The room comes ideally equipped to meet your audiovisual needs, boasting a 9-x-13 foot projection screen, a 4K resolution projector, specialty lighting, and impressive acoustics, ensuring your programming or presentation shines from start to finish.
  • Capacity: Auditorium Style – Main level (452 seats) / Balcony (231 seats)
  • 5,159 Square Feet
• Lecture Hall: The Morley Lecture Hall is a state-of-the-art auditorium-style space that can accommodate up to 150 guests, making it ideal for: * corporate programs * lectures * films, and * other events. The convenient location of the hall in the museum’s lower level makes parking garage access quick and easy for your guests, and the museum’s media services team can help make your program or performance planning a snap. The room comes ideally equipped to meet your audiovisual needs, boasting a 9-x-13 foot projection screen, a 4K resolution projector, specialty lighting, and impressive acoustics, ensuring your programming or presentation shines from start to finish.
  • Capacity: Auditorium Style (150 seats)
  • 1,797 Square Feet
• Provenance Restaurant is an intimate fine dining restaurant located just off the atrium. The restaurant includes a modern lounge area featuring a built-in-bar and lounge furniture groupings, offering a comfortable and inviting space for your guests to socialize.
  • Capacity: Reception Style (up to 100 guests) / Seated Dinner (up to 60 guests)
  • 2,176 Square Feet

Support the Cleveland Museum of Art… by simply booking your next special occasion here:

https://www.clevelandart.org/venue-rentals

As a SHOP: Discover unique gifts…

The Cleveland Museum of Art Store offers a variety of cards, posters, and gifts based on works from the museum collections as well as unique jewelry, clothing accessories, and other items from local artists and museums around the country. Merchandise is catalogued within these collections: * Takashi Murakami * Apparel & Accessories * Books & Media * Games & Toys * Home & Office * Jewelry * Prints & Posters * Stationery, and * Reduced Pricing.

CMA’s PRINTS & CUSTOM FRAMING PROGRAM: High quality reproductions for your home or workspace. Popular Collections include: * Ancient Egypt * Black American Artists * Impressionism * India and South Asia * Modernism and * Women Artists.

Support the Cleveland Museum of Art… by simply purchasing your specialty merchandise here:

https://shop.clevelandart.org/

As an EATERY: Food for thought…

Provenance Restaurant and Café offer visitors to the museum a variety of dining options. The name Provenance is derived from the French word provenir, meaning “to come from.” The word refers to the chronology of ownership pertaining to a historical object or work of art, but it can also be used when describing the origin of food—particularly food from local sources. Provenance, Provenance Café, and Catering by Provenance marry the concept of locally sourced foods with the lineages of nearly 45,000 objects in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s collection.

• Provenance Restaurant: Provenance Restaurant is a 50-seat contemporary restaurant and lounge that features locally sourced and globally inspired cuisine and a prix-fixe menu that complements current museum exhibitions.
• Provenance Café: The café features lunch, dinner, and snack options made in an open kitchen, including a variety of seasonal soups and salads, hot and cold sandwiches, beverages, desserts, and more.

Support the Cleveland Museum of Art… by simply dining here:

https://www.clevelandart.org/food-and-drink

Be a DONOR: Show that you are…

Membership

Your membership energizes the arts community and demonstrates pride in one of Cleveland’s leading institutions. CMA membership is a gift to support making great art free to all. Your contribution demonstrates pride in one of Cleveland’s leading cultural institutions and continues to energize the arts community. Members enjoy many benefits and privileges, such as free exhibition tickets, member-only previews, and discounts in our store and café. Gift memberships are encouraged. Membership at specified levels is offered: * Friend * Partner * Ambassador * Associate * Advocate * Champion * Visionary * Donor * Emerging Donor * Sustainer * Emerging Sustainer * Collector, and * Emerging Collector.

• Emerging Leadership Circle: Emerging Leadership Circle levels are designed for art enthusiasts, collectors, and philanthropists (45 and under) who want to deepen their knowledge of, and connection to, the museum while providing the institution with essential operating support.
• Leadership Circle: Join like-minded individuals who believe in the importance of art in our community and make the museum a priority in their philanthropic giving. Through the generosity of Leadership Circle members, the CMA remains free for all visitors. Gifts to the Leadership Circle membership program help the Cleveland Museum of Art advance its mission to create transformative experiences through art, “for the benefit of all the people forever.”

Donation

Philanthropic support lies at the heart of everything we do. With the generosity of our friends and benefactors, the Cleveland Museum of Art will remain among the very finest art museums in the world and a free museum committed to public access—for the benefit of all the people forever. Donations at specified amounts are designated, or you may give what you can. You may also choose to honor or remember the special individuals in your life with a gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

• Matching Gifts: With matching gifts, you can sometimes  double or even triple  your gift! Many employers sponsor matching gift programs and will match any charitable contributions or volunteer hours made by their employees. Find out if your company has a matching gift policy.
• Planned Giving: Whether remembering the CMA in your will, establishing an income-producing gift, or giving appreciated stock, you can help ensure that the museum remains a global leader and continues to provide transformative experiences for the benefit of all the people, forever.
• Endowment: Contributing to bolster and augment the endowment is critical to sustaining the museum’s standing and making the very finest art from around the globe available to all. Various opportunities exist to make endowed contributions. Named endowments may be established in a variety of ways: cash gifts and multiyear pledges, gifts of art, and gifts of stock or property given through retirement and estate planning.
• Memory and Honor Gifts: Life is filled with special family members and friends who inspire us to extend heartfelt thoughts on a birthday, anniversary, graduation or retirement day, holiday, or after the loss of a loved one. Honor or remember the special individuals in your life with a gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art. A commemorative gift to the museum offers you an artful way to mark personal milestones with a gift that endures for all time—not only for your recipient but also for the northeast Ohio community and beyond.
• Corporate Membership: The Cleveland Museum of Art is one of Ohio’s premier cultural brands, influencing business and tourist decisions that bring both economic and social capital benefits to Northeast Ohio. Offering diverse, high-quality opportunities, Corporate Partnership with the CMA aligns your brand with the CMA’s members – your clients and customers.
• Foundation and Government Support: Foundation and government support allows the museum to offer programming that engages and inspires, ensuring we remain regionally relevant and internationally significant, forever.
• CMA FUNDS:
  • Fund for Conservation: Gifts to the CMA Fund for Conservation begin at $10,000 and support world-class analysis, study, and conservation of the museum collection. The CMA’s conservation department holds a worldwide leadership position in the preservation and treatment of a wide range of art. Working in an 18,000-square-foot suite of state-of-the-art laboratories, the conservation department operates in one of the finest spaces in the country for analysis, study, and conservation of museum collections.
  • Fund for Education: Gifts to the CMA Fund for Education begin at $10,000 and support compelling learning experiences for students, a robust and diverse calendar of free lectures, and community outreach opportunities at the museum’s Community Arts Center.
  • Fund for Exhibitions: Gifts to the CMA Fund for Exhibitions begin at $25,000 and help to offer reliably rich experiences that unite, engage, and serve as prominent ways for individuals and communities to connect with the museum.
  • Library League: 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.

Volunteer:  More than a thousand committed people volunteer to help the Cleveland Museum of Art serve our visitors and operate the campus each year. Volunteer contributions range from staffing the information desk and helping prepare special events to working at the annual Parade the Circle. They also include serving as docents for school groups and assisting with curatorial projects. These volunteers range from high school students to college interns, community leaders to retirees. The common thread is that they all share a commitment to this museum and the community.

Docents:  The Docent Program is a volunteer teaching service organized by the Department of Public and Academic Engagement. Docents interact with visitors and create lasting memories through tours of the finest artistic and cultural traditions represented in our collection. They act as an important liaison between the museum collections, visitors, and staff. Each year, docents lead more than 15,000 visitors through the museum for tours that highlight the permanent collection and special exhibitions, as well as on customized tours designed for adult and school groups. Docents are active members of the museum and are offered free parking and coffee, and discounts in our café and store. These dedicated volunteers have been an integral part of the Department of Public and Academic Engagement since 2000.

Internships: We look for dynamic, creative individuals with the knowledge and experience to join our staff and enhance our reputation as one of the finest comprehensive art museums in the United States. The internship program at the Cleveland Museum of Art provides professional learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students from a wide range of academic disciplines. Students placed in an internship role work alongside CMA staff on unique projects designed to complement academic instruction through hands-on experience. Each internship opportunity at the CMA is paid and takes place over the course of six to eight weeks during the summer. Internships are available in departments across the institution and for students from a diversity of academic interests. Summer internship opportunities become available early in the spring term of each academic year. Please return to our website often to view open internship positions and apply.

Support the Cleveland Museum of Art… by simply becoming a member, donating, or volunteering here:

https://www.clevelandart.org/waystogive