The new renovation takes this place world class. Beyond doubt. Now rivals Tate Modern in London, my favorite museum in the world. Enter here, and you forget CLE is a rust belt city in endless decline, instead touching the proudest broadest shoulders of a once great glorious giant.
Original building is a Cleveland early 20th century masterpiece. Tiffany torch lamps in the grand lobby echo industrial domination long since past into the mist. New building is flooded with natural light, making the art pop. The collection is unsurpassed anywhere in the country save New York's Met. And the new Atrium is a cathedral to modernity, soaring as Cleveland once did.
What a treasure.