Best Museum Tours In Cleveland

The Daily Meal Staff|Aug. 18, 2014 7:00 am EST

Life is better traveled with company. Use this motto when touring Cleveland's best art museums, gardens and local attractions. You'll find wonderful examples of the highlights of the museums, but you'll also experience some interesting ways to travel; with children or in groups and all the while observing Cleveland's amazing collections. Find the best Cleveland museum tours for all of your favorite exhibitions.

Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval Drive
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 231-4600
www.cmnh.org

Cleveland's Museum of Natural History has a great way to tour local wineries. This tour; Natural Areas Wine Tours 2014, takes you through the beautiful outdoors, offers food and drink and has several dates to participate, perfect for busy schedules. Stroll, with a guide through, the Museum's preserved land with a lunch and wine tasting following the hike. These nature-led hikes and wine tastings last into the fall, so if you've missed the spring edition, there's still time to participate.

Cleveland's Federal Reserve Bank
1455 E. 6th St.
Cleveland, OH 44114
(216) 579-3188
www.clevelandfed.org

If you've always enjoyed love of art and architecture tours, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland will absolutely impress you. Its building is a monument to craftsmanship with vaulted ceilings, gilded details and historic artifacts like the 100-pound steel vault door. Take a guided tour of the building and learn how money has changed, who's in charge of it and why we need it. If that's not interesting enough, allow yourself to fall to the back of the group and wonder at the building itself.

Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Blvd.
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 421-7350
www.clevelandart.org

No need to feel like your intellect is on the back burner once you've had a baby. At the Cleveland Museum of Art, stroller tours are the hottest new way to travel. Every third Wednesday of the month, a tour of the open galleries is offered by one of the museum educators to moms and babies. You'll fit right in with other interesting moms, and if baby cries, you're in good company with no judgments. Call ahead to register as space is limited to 10 pairs (mom and baby).

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum
1100 E. 9th St.
Cleveland, OH 44114
(216) 781-7625
www.rockhall.com

Get your group together to tour the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame located right on Cleveland's lakefront. This museum is a must see and since group tours offer an amazing price ($18 per adult), plenty of time to see the facility (3.5 hours for an adult group) and additional amenities like a tour director and express entry, start calling your friends. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has everything from the classic artists to the history of rock and roll with exhibitions about blues, bluegrass, jazz and country music. Come with a tour or tour the Rock and Roll museum alone, there's so much to see!

Cleveland Botanical Garden
11030 East Blvd.
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 721-1600
www.cbgarden.org

Winter, spring, summer and fall, the Cleveland Botanical Garden has something for every season. Tour the facilities in the spring and see the buds in bloom or stop by the summer and spend hours outside in the children's Hershey Garden getting dirty while you help build and plant or relax in the Japanese garden. Once you've toured the gardens and seen how amazing Cleveland's Botanical Garden is, come back on a date night with that special someone or with the family for fall festivities when the gardens are bountiful.

Marissa Burke is a happily adventurous wife, mother and runner. Living in Lakewood, Ohio she searches neighboring communities for exciting food and drinks that are good and good for you in the Cleveland area. Her work can be found at Examiner.com.