The Marvel movie "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" is moving into a rarefied cultural setting Sunday and Monday: the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The museum, which is normally open Tuesday through Sunday, had not made made a broad announcement that it would be closed Sunday.

After an inquiry late tonight, a spokeswoman for the institution contacted Marvel and said the company had given her permission to say that the movie was the cause of the closure.

“We can say that they are filming here,” said Elizabeth Bolander, director of communications and research at the museum. “Otherwise their publicist can answer all the questions.’’

Bolander declined to say what the museum will be paid by Marvel.

On June 11, the museum posted a brief statement

on its web site on saying it would be closed Sunday “due to the filming of a major motion picture,” but the statement could have been easily overlooked.

Bolander said the museum also sent an email message on June 11 to about 9,000 of its 18,000 members who signed up for email bulletins. It said the museum would be closed Sunday.

The closure will occur a day after the museum's "Solstice" celebration, a welcome-to-summer event that has become an annual rite in Cleveland, drawing thousands to the institution for drinks, food, dancing and late night hours in galleries. The event is scheduled from 8 p.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday.

"We in the past have been open only a short amount of time after Solstice," Bolander said. "Our dining services, store, atrium and Gallery One were going to be closed on Sunday anyway."

Those spaces will remain closed on Tuesday, Bolander said, and the museum on that day will reactivate its “Art Detour,” a pathway through its basement level, to enable visitors to reach the main gallery level on the building’s second floor.

The newly installed North Galleries, with exhibits of pre-Columbian, Native American, Japanese and Korean art and textiles, will be open Tuesday for member previews.

Normal public access to the entire museum resumes on Wednesday.

Bolander said that on Sunday and Monday, the film crew will have access to the museum’s Provenance Restaurant and its Café, along with the museum store, central atrium and Gallery One educational gallery.

The museum’s first floor Focus Gallery, which now features an exhibition on Tantra imagery in Buddhist art, will not be part of any filming activity, Bolander said.

Artworks in Gallery One, which include more than 50 objects by artists such as George Segal, Jean-Leon Gerome and Viktor Schreckengost, will not be at risk, Bolander said.

“It’s a top priority” to ensure the safety of the collection, she said. Galleries on the museum's second level will not be available to the film crew, she said.

The museum has been closed in recent years for construction and the occasional power outage.

Bolander said that to her knowledge the museum has not been rented its entirety in recent memory, although the atrium is frequently rented for large gatherings and events.