CLEVELAND — Every Sunday for the next three years, residents of Cleveland and East Cleveland will be able to visit the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for free.
What You Need To Know
- Cleveland and East Cleveland residents are able to visit the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for free on Sundays
- A $3 million grant made it possible
- The grant will also fund the Morton Community Space
A $3 million grant from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel foundation is making it possible.
"The grant is two parts: It's to do the program for the community days, and it's to provide capital grant to create the Morton Community Space outside of our education wing, which will be newly opened in 2024," explained Amy Miller, the director of donor relations at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. "So that is really for community-based learning, life-long learners, that we really want to provide for our community and nationwide."
The goal is to help make the museum more accessible to everyone.
“This is really the first step we are taking right now, and we are really pleased because museums should be open for everyone," Miller said. "They [museums] shouldn’t be for an exclusive group of people. So, if money is a barrier we at least want to eliminate that right now.”
The museum will be undergoing major transformations over the next two years.
"From now through the brand new opening of the museum in 2024, we will have different parts of the museum opened and parts closed," she explained. "Part of this is that we want to create more access and availability for people to join us."
The museum still has COVID protocols in place, such as mandatory masks for guests.
