I have toured museums all over the world- London, Paris, New York, LA, Chicago, Rome, Florence, just to name a few, and I can say from firsthand experience that Cleveland’s museum collections are among the best I have seen, and include exhibits that everyone should see.
The Cleveland Art Museum is always ranked extremely high- #6 in the country on this listing, for example: (AND IT’S FREE to VISIT- the others on this list often cost $25 a person…) :
https://www.tripsavvy.com/top-art-museums-in-the-united-states-3301103
The Cleveland Symphony is typically ranked in the top 10 in the WORLD… On this poll of experts it was ranked #7—
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/11/cleveland_orchestra_is_no_7_in.html (And CWRU students can attend concerts for free.)
About most importantly for this site, CWRU continues to climb the rankings- #37 in the country in US News Rankings and higher in rankings that take into account what the college does for the public good @ #12- http://case.edu/about/rankings.html. Ranking are dynamic and always changing… the thing about CWRU that is important to see is that it has consistently been moving up in recent years…
Really, as others have said above, if you have not been to Cleveland recently, you really don’t know Cleveland, and its especially true for the University Circle area (where CWRU and Lots of Museums are located).