ArtLens Gallery | Cleveland Museum of Art

Come experience what everyone’s talking about! Look closer, dive deeper, and have fun discovering the museum’s collection.

ArtLens Gallery is a multifaceted, innovative experience that allows you, your family, and your friends to look closer, dive deeper, and have fun discovering the museum’s collection using award-winning digital technology. Create your own digital artwork in ArtLens Studio, engage with masterworks of art and touchscreen-free interactives in ArtLens Exhibition, and connect with the museum’s world-renowned collection at ArtLens Wall. Use ArtLens App to save the artworks you learn about and photos you take during your experience, and then map your visit throughout the museum using the app’s responsive wayfinding technology. The primary goal of ArtLens Gallery is to use innovative technology to provide visitors the tool sets to look closer, dive deeper, and feel comfortable exploring every gallery in the museum.

Inside the Gallery

ArtLens Studio

ArtLens Studio is for the young and young at heart, fostering a lifetime connection to the museum through joyful, creative exploration of the collection.

ArtLens Exhibition

ArtLens Exhibition is an experiential gallery that puts you—the viewer—into conversation with masterpieces of art, encouraging engagement on a personal, emotional level.

ArtLens Wall

The ArtLens Wall, a 40-foot interactive, multitouch, MicroTile wall, displays in real time all works of art from the permanent collection currently on view in the galleries.

ArtLens App

Turn your smartphone into a pocket guide to the CMA with ArtLens App. Use it as a companion within the museum or as a way to explore and create from home.

Gallery Location

The ArtLens Gallery is located on Level One of the museum. You can access ArtLens Gallery by going through the museum's main entrance and turning left. It can also be accessed from the Ames Family Atrium or through the ticket center at the North entrance.

Girl experimenting in ArtLens

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Behind the Scenes

How ArtLens Came to Life

Over the past several years, we’ve gathered information to help us understand exactly how digital interactivity can be used to engage and to educate.

(opens in new tab)Back-End Systems

The CMA’s custom-built catalogue-management system pulls live content, writes it once, and then updates it everywhere, making any information immediately accessible in all digital interactives.

Gallery One

The first iteration of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s groundbreaking space blended art, technology, and interpretation to inspire visitors to explore the museum’s permanent collection.

ArtLens in the News

Sponsors

ArtLens is funded by the Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.