| From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints | | September | 17 | 2000 | November | 26 | 2000 |
| Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors | Link | September | 17 | 2000 | November | 26 | 2000 |
| Object in Focus: Samuel Hester Crone, "Smithy (Study for The Judgement [Das Gericht])," about 1883 (1999.38) | | October | 17 | 2000 | December | 17 | 2000 |
| Yasuhiro Ishimoto Photographs: Traces of Memory | | October | 21 | 2000 | January | 03 | 2001 |
| Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design | Link | November | 12 | 2000 | February | 04 | 2001 |
| Object in Focus: Group of Creche Figures: Adoration of the Magi (1972.368.2 | | December | 05 | 2000 | January | 07 | 2001 |
| Fabric of Enchantment: Indonesian Batik from the North Coast of Java from the Inger McCabe Elliott Collection | Link | December | 17 | 2000 | February | 11 | 2001 |
| Jeff Brouws Photographs of Cleveland: A City Renewed | | January | 15 | 2000 | March | 15 | 2000 |
| Cleveland Builds an Art Museum 1884 | Link | January | 21 | 2000 | | | |
| Object in Focus: Buddha Head (1997.146) | | February | 08 | 2000 | April | 09 | 2000 |
| Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur | Link | February | 20 | 2000 | April | 23 | 2000 |
| Lynn Geesaman Photographs: Poetics of Place | | March | 18 | 2000 | May | 24 | 2000 |
| Ink Paintings and Ash-Glazed Ceramics: Medieval Calligraphy, Painting, and Ceramic Art from Japan and Korea | Link | March | 19 | 2000 | May | 28 | 2000 |
| East Meets West: Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints | | March | 19 | 2000 | May | 28 | 2000 |
| Object in Focus: Sebastiano Ricci, \Apotheosis of a Saint\ (1980.39) | | April | 11 | 2000 | June | 11 | 2000 |
| 19th-Century French Portrait Photography from the CMA | | May | 27 | 2000 | August | 09 | 2000 |
| Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections | Link | May | 28 | 2000 | July | 30 | 2000 |
| Object in Focus: Lenore Tawney "Untitled," 1974 (1975.39) | | June | 13 | 2000 | August | 13 | 2000 |
| Pioneers of Landscape Photography from the Museum's Collection | | August | 12 | 2000 | January | 03 | 2001 |
| Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun | Link | June | 18 | 2000 | August | 27 | 2000 |
