| Polish Children's Drawings | | October | 30 | 1933 | November | 28 | 1933 |
| Guatemalan Textiles and Costumes Collected by Ruth Reeves | | October | 15 | 1936 | November | 08 | 1936 |
| Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought | Link | October | 10 | 1990 | December | 09 | 1990 |
| Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century | | October | 22 | 2016 | February | 05 | 2017 |
| North American Indian Handicrafts [Children's Museum] | | October | 08 | 1935 | November | 29 | 1935 |
| Asian Autumn 1994: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland | | October | 18 | 1994 | December | 31 | 1994 |
| Object in Focus: Samuel Hester Crone, "Smithy (Study for The Judgement [Das Gericht])," about 1883 (1999.38) | | October | 17 | 2000 | December | 17 | 2000 |
| Outdoor Class Exhibit | | October | | 1959 | October | | 1959 |
| Prints by Utamaro | | October | | 1923 | October | | 1923 |
| Colonial Paintings and Silver | | October | | 1939 | October | | 1939 |
| 15th Annual Ohio Print Makers' Exhibition, circulated by the Dayton Art Institute | | October | 15 | 1942 | November | 01 | 1942 |
| Baron [Hans Peder] Dan Exhibition | | October | 15 | 1936 | November | 01 | 1936 |
| Egypt | | October | 07 | 1952 | December | 24 | 1952 |
| The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art | Link | October | 08 | 1986 | December | 14 | 1986 |
| Korean Art: Images from the Land of the Morning Calm | | October | 23 | 1990 | January | 13 | 1991 |
| Myth and Mystique: Cleveland’s Gothic Table Fountain | Link | October | 09 | 2016 | February | 26 | 2017 |
| Ceremonial Masks: Plates from Curtis' The North American Indian | | October | 08 | 1935 | December | 28 | 1935 |
| Drawings by Outdoor Classes | | October | 02 | 1951 | October | 28 | 1951 |
| Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting | Link | October | 01 | 1985 | February | 24 | 1986 |
| From Hand to Mouth: A History of Flatware | | October | 18 | 1994 | March | 26 | 1995 |
