| The Twain Shall Meet | | October | 30 | 1985 | January | 05 | 1986 |
| Musical Instruments | | October | 09 | 1921 | November | 14 | 1921 |
| 200 Years of British Prints | | October | 03 | 1984 | February | 03 | 1985 |
| Challenging Structure: Frank Gehry's Peter B. Lewis Building | Link | October | 06 | 2002 | February | 24 | 2003 |
| Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography | Link | October | 19 | 2014 | January | 11 | 2015 |
| Japanese Court Dolls and Chinese Sculpture | | October | | 1931 | November | | 1931 |
| Exhibition of the Month: Chinese Furniture | | October | 29 | 1946 | December | 30 | 1946 |
| Special Exhibition of American Silks Made and Lent by Cheney Brothers | | October | 20 | 1922 | October | 31 | 1922 |
| Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection | Link | October | 21 | 1981 | November | 29 | 1981 |
| Backwaters: Landscape Photographs by Thomas Joshua Cooper | | October | 24 | 1998 | January | 06 | 1999 |
| Colonial Paintings and Silver | | October | | 1939 | October | | 1939 |
| Miscellaneous Paintings from the [Hinman] Hurlbut, [Horace] Kelley and [William J.] Gordon Collections | | October | 26 | 1921 | November | 16 | 1921 |
| William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise | Link | October | 29 | 2017 | January | 13 | 2019 |
| The Cleveland Museum of Art Presents Four Cleveland Artists: George G. Adomeit, Otto H. Bacher, Frederick C. Gottwald, and Walter A. Sinz | | October | 12 | 1984 | November | 02 | 1984 |
| Magna Graecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily | Link | October | 27 | 2002 | January | 05 | 2003 |
| Anicka Yi: Death | Link | October | 11 | 2014 | January | 17 | 2015 |
| Historic Brocades, Damasks and Velvets (1931, 2) | | October | 08 | 1931 | January | | 1932 |
| Embroideries from the Greek Islands, Turkey, and Morocco | | October | 03 | 1934 | October | 28 | 1934 |
| Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia | | October | 02 | 1987 | January | 04 | 1988 |
| Contemporary Artists | Link | October | 21 | 1981 | November | 29 | 1981 |
