Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
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Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland is a museum in Ohio, at a modelled elevation of 210 m. Derthick Hill stands 409 m to the east-southeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Toby's Plaza, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail passes 2.5 miles off. 16 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (abbreviated to moCa) is a contemporary art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is the only contemporary art venue of its kind in Metropolitan Cleveland. The organization was founded by Marjorie Talalay, Agnes Gund, and Nina Castelli Sundell in 1968 and has undergone several name and venue changes in the years following its 1968 founding. Originally known as The New Gallery, the museum was rebranded as the Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art in 1984. The gallery has operated under its current branding as the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa) since 2002.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1968.
Wikidata Q6940816, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 2.5 mi off the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail, National
- 3.5 mi off the Ohio & Erie Canalway, National
- 19.2 mi off the North Ridge Scenic Byway
- 21.2 mi off the Heritage Corridors of Bath
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 3 mi
- Mill Creek Falls Overlook · 5 mi
- Sokolowski's Overlook · 5 mi
- Cleveland Script Sign - North Coast Harbor · 5 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Toby's Plaza: 0.0 mi
- KSL Oval: 0.3 mi
- NRV Fire Pit: 0.3 mi
- Tony Brush Park: 0.3 mi
- Virginia Havens Park: 0.4 mi
- Judy's Hand Pavilion: 0.0 mi
- The Great Picnic: 0.0 mi
- Things Change: 0.1 mi
- Things Change: 0.1 mi
- Oeccan: 0.2 mi
- Mary and Al Schneider Healing Garden: 0.1 mi
- Study Garden: 0.2 mi
- Farmer Tropiano Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- Sunken Garden: 0.3 mi
- Herb Garden: 0.3 mi
- Mary Chisholm Painter Memorial Gateway: 0.2 mi
- To the Memory of Martha Holden Jennings: 0.2 mi
- Alumni Wall: 0.2 mi
- Painted Rock: 0.2 mi
- McDog 1958-1972: 0.3 mi
- Morgana Bluffs Nature Preserve: 3.9 mi
- Euclid Creek Reservation: 5.5 mi
- Acacia Reservation: 5.8 mi
- Astorhurst Park: 9.6 mi
- Pete's Pond Preserve: 9.8 mi
- Centennial Dental Museum: 0.3 mi
- Dittrick Museum of Medicine History: 0.3 mi
- Cleveland Museum of Art: 0.4 mi
- Hay-McKinney House: 0.4 mi
- Physics Museum: 0.4 mi
- Kelly Picnic Area: 4.7 mi
- Quarry Picnic Area: 4.8 mi
- Windy Ridge Picnic Area: 5.3 mi
- Trolley Turn Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- Morgan's Hollow Reserved Picnic Area: 5.9 mi
- Cleveland Cultural Gardens: 1.8 mi
- League Park: 2.0 mi
- City of Cleveland Greenhouse at Rockefeller Park: 2.3 mi
- Playhouse Square Chandelier: 4.0 mi
- Torpedo: 4.5 mi
- Dugway Brook Falls: 1.7 mi
- Mill Creek Falls: 4.5 mi
- Great Falls of Tinker's Creek: 9.4 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 9.6 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 9.8 mi
- Orange Hill: 8.9 mi
- Gildersleeve Mountain: 14.0 mi
- Waite Hill: 14.2 mi
- Cuyahoga County high point: 15.0 mi
- Piersons Knob: 16.1 mi
- Villa Beach: 5.0 mi
- Beulah Park Beach: 5.2 mi
- Euclid Beach: 5.5 mi
- Villa Angela Beach: 5.6 mi
- Edgewater Beach: 7.1 mi
- Cleveland East Pierhead Light: 5.7 mi
- Cleveland Harbor Main Entrance Light: 5.8 mi
- Fog Signal House: 5.8 mi
- Fairport Harbor Marine Museum and Lighthouse: 24.1 mi
- West Breakwater Light: 24.5 mi
- Whipps Ledges: 20.6 mi
- Princess Ledges: 21.0 mi
- Princess Ledges: 21.0 mi
- Wordens Ledges: 21.8 mi
- Hinkley Rest Area: 20.9 mi
- Hinkley Rest Area: 21.0 mi
- Summit Interstate 77 Southbound: 21.7 mi
- Summit Interstate 77 Northbound: 21.7 mi
- Brandywine Village: 16.5 mi
- Newbury Center: 18.9 mi
- Cobbs Corners: 21.7 mi
- White Oak Spring: 20.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Derthick Hill | ESE 123° | 409 m | 24.8 mi |
| Summit County high point | S 189° | 404 m | 18.2 mi |
| McConougheys Hill | ESE 114° | 399 m | 17.3 mi |
| Cuyahoga County high point | SSW 196° | 390 m | 15.0 mi |
| Sand Hill | E 87° | 381 m | 17.1 mi |
| The Knob | ENE 62° | 378 m | 19.9 mi |
| Ballards Hill | ENE 77° | 377 m | 24.5 mi |
| Little Mountain | ENE 63° | 374 m | 19.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:02 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:23 | 21:04 |
| September equinox | 07:15 | 18:49 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:50 | 16:16 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 31 | 38 | 49 | 61 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 67 | 56 | 45 | 35 |
| Precip in | 1.8 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cleveland Burke Lakefront AP, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/190818686
Day trips start here
- Cleveland/East Side · 2 mi
- Cleveland Heights · 2 mi
- Cleveland · 4 mi
- Cleveland/Downtown · 4 mi
- Cuyahoga County · 4 mi
- Greater Cleveland · 4 mi
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