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Originally Posted by The North One
The main art museums seems like a tie but Cleveland has nothing like the Henry Ford museum, or Cranbrook just off the top of my head. And Motown museum is about to undergo a massive expansion becoming a proper institution. Detroit has giant legacy libraries as well, and a great orchestra. Very well funded too. https://www.freep.com/story/entertai...ps/8825647002/
Cleveland's art museum is nowhere near downtown either, it's in an autocentric culture campus. So I don't see how that makes downtown Cleveland special. Pretty much agree Cleveland is solid third.
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I think most people would say Cleveland has the better art museum and orchestra compared to Detroit's. University Circle is Cleveland's 'second downtown', and describing it as autocentric is very strange considering it's an old neighborhood served by both BRT and the Red Line. In fact, when I first visited the Cleveland Art Museum, I got there by taking the Rapid from downtown.
University Circle also has the Contemporary Arts Museum, Case Western University, Natural History Museum, Western Reserve/Cle History Museum, Severence Hall where the orchestra plays...it's a huge cultural center. I can't think of any match for it in Detroit. It also gets bonus points for having the super cute Little Italy right next door, and again, two Rapid stations.
Really, most Midwestern cities punch far above their weight when it comes to arts and museums. In addition to Detroit and Cleveland, Cincinnati, MSP, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Indianapolis (plus the border cities of Pittsburgh and Buffalo) all have great museums. Columbus is kind of the odd one out here. They have a good children's museum (as does Indy), and some smaller art museums (Wexner Center, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus Museum of Art), but nothing that compares to the others I just mentioned.