open-museum-mcp
One search across open-access museum collections worldwide, with strict per-museum rights verification and ready-to-use citations.
The Met, Rijksmuseum, the Smithsonian, Cleveland Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, SMK (National Gallery of Denmark), the Walters, Wellcome Collection, Wikimedia Commons, and Europeana — searched together, returned in one normalized shape, with the rights gate enforced per museum so you never receive a record whose open-access status is missing or ambiguous. The list keeps growing.
See it in action first → pramod.ch/open-museum-mcp — three worked examples (cross-tradition pairing, date-windowed scan, counterpoint discovery), real records, real citations, no install required.
Who this is for
- Art-history students and researchers who need cited references and rights-cleared images for papers, slides, and theses — across institutions, in one query.
- Writers, educators, and journalists who want reuse-safe artwork to pair with essays, lessons, or articles, with pre-formatted attributions.
- MCP / agent builders who want a small set of high-value tools (
search_artworks,get_artwork,cite) with consistent schemas across sources, instead of installing one MCP per museum.
