The Canton Museum of Art began as the Little Civic Art Gallery founded in a second floor room of the Canton Public Library in 1935.
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It quickly outgrew its limited space as it began to offer numerous exhibits and art classes for the community, and in 1941, a fine Richardsonian building known as the Case Mansion was donated and renovated to become the home of the Canton Art Institute.

During the next thirty years, CAI became a focal point not just for the visual arts but for all the arts in Canton, providing a home for the offices of the Canton Symphony, and facilities for the Madrigal Singers, Canton Chamber Music Society and the Players Guild.

A new home for all the arts in Canton was created when the Cultural Center for the Arts was established in 1970.

Here the Institute began a program to build its Permanent Collection, and expanded its exhibits and art classes.

We celebrated our 60th Anniversary in 1995 and marked the occasion with a new identity as the Canton Museum of Art. The 1997-98 season was the most successful in the Museum's history with over 62,000 people coming through the doors for two noteworthy exhibitions, Norman Rockwell's America and The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936.