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1913

The Cleveland Museum of Art was founded as a trust in 1913 with an endowment from prominent Cleveland industrialists Hinman Hurlbut, John Huntington, and Horace Kelley.

1916

The $350 million project—two-thirds of which was earmarked for the complete renovation of the original 1916 structure—added two new wings, and was the largest cultural project in Ohio's history.

The museum opened additional wings to house its burgeoning collections in 1958, 1971, and 1983. It opened to the public in 1916 on Jeptha H. Wade's Wade Park property in University Circle.

1919

In 1919 the first “Annual Exhibition of Cleveland Artists & Craftsmen” was held.

1958

In March 1958, the first addition to the building opened, doubling the museum's floorspace.

1971

The museum again expanded in 1971 with the opening of the North Wing.

1983

In 1983 Doctor Evan Hopkins Turner became the fourth director.

In 1983, a West Wing, designed by the Cleveland architectural firm of Dalton, van Dijk, Johnson, & Partners, was completed.

2000

On March 13, 2000, Katharine Lee Reid, the daughter of former director Sherman Lee, became the museum’s sixth director.

2006

Succeeding Katharine Lee Reid in April 2006, Timothy Rub became the seventh director of the museum.

2009

On June 27, 2009, the newly constructed East Wing (which contains the Impressionist, Contemporary, and Modern art collections) opened to the public.

Rub resigned as director in September 2009 to become director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

2010

Deborah Gribbon, a former director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, served as interim director until September 2010.

2013

David Franklin, an internationally respected scholar of Italian Renaissance and baroque art, was the museum's eighth director; his term ended in October 2013.

2014

The West Wing opened on January 2, 2014.

William M. Griswold was named the ninth director of the museum in May 2014.

2021

On June 12, 2021, Cleveland Museum of Art opened a community arts center in Cleveland's Clark-Fulton neighborhood.

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