--- title: "Connect Telegram to Harvard Art Museums - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Update\" fires in Telegram, your agent runs \"Find exhibitions by criteria\" in Harvard Art Museums." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-harvard-art-museums" --- # Connect Telegram to Harvard Art Museums When **New Update** fires in [Telegram](https://apiant.ai/connections/telegram), your agent runs **Find exhibitions by criteria** in [Harvard Art Museums](https://apiant.ai/connections/harvard-art-museums). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Telegram **1** trigger Telegram **14** actions Harvard Art Museums **10** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Telegram and Harvard Art Museums to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Telegram can start in Harvard Art Museums - When **New Update** in Telegram then **Find exhibitions by criteria** in Harvard Art Museums - When **New Update** in Telegram then **Find objects by criteria** in Harvard Art Museums Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Telegram and Harvard Art Museums ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 24 actions - Trigger **New Update** Triggers when Telegram delivers an update to your bot. Choose which kind of update to watch — a new message, a button press, a membership change, and so on. Telegram allows one webhook per bot, so use a single New Update trigger per bot token. - Action **Ban Chat Member** Ban a user from a group, supergroup or channel. - Action **Delete Message** Delete a message from a chat. - Action **Forward Message** Forward an existing message from one chat to another. - Action **Get Chat** Get up-to-date information about a chat (user, group, or channel). - Action **Get Chat Member** Look up one person's membership in a chat — whether they are a member, an administrator, restricted, or have left or been banned. - Action **React to Message** Sets an emoji reaction on an existing message. - Action **Send Chat Action** Send a chat action (e.g. typing, upload_photo) to indicate the bot is doing something. - Action **Send Document** Send a general file/document to a chat. - Action **Send Location** Send a point on the map to a chat. - Action **Send Message** Sends a message from your bot. - Action **Send Photo** Sends a photo from your bot. - Action **Send Poll** Sends a poll from your bot. - Action **Send Video** Send a video to a chat. - Action **Update Message** Edit the text of a previously sent message. - Action **Find exhibitions by criteria** Searches the Harvard Art Museums exhibitions by keyword, venue, person, status or date and returns the matching exhibitions. - Action **Find objects by criteria** Searches the Harvard Art Museums collection and returns the objects that match the criteria you give, such as keyword, title, artist, classification or year made. - Action **Find people by criteria** Searches the Harvard Art Museums people (artists, sitters, donors, authors and more) by criteria and returns the matching person records. - Action **Find publications by criteria** Searches the Harvard Art Museums publications that have been written about or illustrate artworks in the collection, by keyword, person, group, year or other criteria. - Action **Get exhibition** Returns the full record for one Harvard Art Museums exhibition, including its venues, images, publications and videos. - Action **Get object** Returns the full record of one object in the Harvard Art Museums collection, including its people, images, exhibitions and publications. - Action **Get person** Returns the full record for one person associated with the Harvard Art Museums collections, such as an artist, sitter, donor or author. - Action **List classifications** Returns the classifications Harvard Art Museums curators use to categorize items in the collections, such as Prints or Sculpture, with each one's object count. - Action **List cultures** Returns the cultures used to describe items in the Harvard Art Museums collections, optionally filtered by a search. - Action **List galleries** Returns the galleries in the Harvard Art Museums building, optionally filtered by floor or a search query. ## Each app on its own - [ **Telegram** Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service developed by Telegram Messenger LLP.](https://apiant.ai/connections/telegram) - [ **Harvard Art Museums** Art](https://apiant.ai/connections/harvard-art-museums) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Telegram - [ **Telegram to Aurora Inbox** Aurora Inbox transforms your business WhatsApp into an intelligent sales hub.](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-aurora-inbox) - [ **Telegram to Base44** Base44 is a platform that allows non-technical people to build their own Apps using AI.](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-base44) - [ **Telegram to BlazePhoenix** BlazePhoenix is an on-chain decentralized-exchange aggregator.](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-blazephoenix) - [ **Telegram to Brazil CNPJ** Query Brazilian companies by CNPJ with full Receita Federal registry data, no key required](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-brazil-cnpj) - [ **Telegram to Chinese Text Project** Chinese Text Project is an open-access digital library of pre-modern Chinese texts, covering the classical...](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-chinese-text-project) - [ **Telegram to Galileo** Galileo is a tool that turns text into beautiful UI designs instantly with Galileo AI—fast, smart, and ready...](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-galileo) ## More into Harvard Art Museums - [ **HubSpot to Harvard Art Museums** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-harvard-art-museums) - [ **Salesforce to Harvard Art Museums** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-harvard-art-museums) - [ **Slack to Harvard Art Museums** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Harvard Art Museums when something happens in Telegram? Any of Harvard Art Museums's 10 actions, including Find exhibitions by criteria, Find objects by criteria, Find people by criteria and Find publications by criteria. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Harvard Art Museums to Telegram? Harvard Art Museums has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Telegram. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Harvard Art Museums's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Telegram or Harvard Art Museums? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Telegram and Harvard Art Museums without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.