ArtLens Gallery

The Cleveland Museum of Art's ArtLens Gallery is a multi-faceted, innovative experience that allows you, your family, and friends to discover the Museum's collection in new ways using award-winning digital technology.

When you first enter the Gallery, your eye is caught by the 20 ft-wide digital Beacon that uses whimsical stop motion to pull live visitor creations from ArtLens Studio, Exhibition, and App, and features works of art from across the Museum's collection.

From there, you can venture into the ArtLens Studio, where visitors foster relationships with the collection by engaging with details. As they make connections, they practice skills that will enhance their experience with art.

The Studio includes the Reveal and Zoom wall, where visitors kinetically engage their bodies to reveal artworks or zoom into an artwork in great detail, as well as the Create Studio, which allows guests to make their own digital artworks. The creative possibilities are endless.

The relationships created in the ArtLens Studio carry over as you make your way into the galleries, promoting greater participation with the collection.

Next comes the ArtLens Exhibition, an experiential gallery that uses innovative technology to put the viewer into conversation with masterpieces of art, encouraging engagement on a personal as well as emotional level.

The Exhibition seeks to push the boundaries of innovation by providing visitors with the tools to look more closely at art. Guests engage with interactives that intertwine innovative gesture-sensing, eye-tracking, and facial recognition with a selection of CMA masterworks.

Artworks from across the collection are featured in the Exhibition, giving visitors a crash course in Art History 101 through gameplay by intertwining digital innovation with physical masterpieces.

The adjacent room leads to the 40-foot interactive and multitouch ArtLens Wall. This digital visualization of the collection provides a snapshot of the Museum, allowing visitors to browse all artworks currently on view.

Every 40 seconds the Wall rotates through the art, displaying curated selections of artworks grouped in dozens of ways—by type, theme, purpose, shape, color—so you can see how different artworks in CMA's collection are related across cultures and time periods.

If you see something you like, you can touch an artwork to find out what it is and where it is in the Museum. Select the medium, time period, or culture above the artwork to get from ancient figurines to contemporary architecture all without moving from your spot!

Downloading CMA's ArtLens App brings the experience full circle.  With the App, you can set your mobile device on designated docks in the ArtLens Exhibition and at the ArtLens Wall to then save your favorite pieces and personal creations to your phone or tablet.

The App also supplements your journey throughout the Museum more generally. As your make your way through CMA, the App's interactive map allows you to find galleries with ease. You can even use the App's location service to find out where you are in the Musuem.

Tours are a great resource to all visitors, but especially educators, students, and families. Create a personalized tour that may be added to “Visitor-Created” tours and shared with the world. Explore the CMA’s highlights with guided audio tours in the “Featured Tours” section.

The scanning feature on the App uses Augmented Reality to provide additional curatorial and interpretive content for certain artworks. Each month, additional artworks are made scannable so visitors always have the opportunity to explore and learn more.

An art museum is more than just a place to come and and look at art. Come engage with art in innovative and challenging ways at the Cleveland Museum of Art!