Art & Design

Metropolitan Museum of Art integrations

Connect Metropolitan Museum of Art to any other app, or use it from your AI client over MCP. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API exposes the museum's open-access catalogue of more than four hundred thousand artworks. Callers can list all object ids, optionally filtered by department or by the date they were last updated, retrieve the full record for one object including its title, artist, culture, medium, dimensions, accession details and image URLs, list the museum's departments, and search the collection by keyword with filters such as department, medium, date range, geographic location and whether images are available. No credentials required.

No account neededmetmuseum.github.io
4 actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

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Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

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Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

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Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

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Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

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Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

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Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

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What your agent can do with Metropolitan Museum of Art

Triggers and actions 4 actions

  • Action
    Find objects by keyword

    Search for Object IDs matching a keyword query, with optional filters (title, tags, department, date, medium, etc.) and paging.

  • Action
    Get object

    Get the full open-access record for one artwork by Object ID, including images and provenance details.

  • Action
    List departments

    List all curatorial departments with their department ID and display name, for use as a filter on other operations.

  • Action
    List objects

    List valid Object IDs in the Met's collection, optionally filtered by department or last-updated date.

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Is there a Metropolitan Museum of Art MCP server?

APIANT's MCP server at https://mcp.apiant.ai works with Metropolitan Museum of Art. Add that address to any AI client that takes a remote MCP server and sign in once in your browser. Your client can then run Metropolitan Museum of Art actions on demand, or have APIANT build, test and run automations that use Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nothing to install.

What can your agent do in Metropolitan Museum of Art?

Any of Metropolitan Museum of Art's 4 actions, including Find objects by keyword, Get object, List departments and List objects. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

Can I use Metropolitan Museum of Art directly from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect your AI client to APIANT once and it works with Metropolitan Museum of Art two ways. Ask it to do something in Metropolitan Museum of Art 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 on its own. A one-off action uses your plan's tasks the same way an automation step does.

Do I need to write code against the Metropolitan Museum of Art API?

No. APIANT connects to the Metropolitan Museum of Art API for you. Describe what you want in plain language and your agent builds it on the Metropolitan Museum of Art triggers and actions in the catalog. If you need an endpoint that is not there yet, your agent reads the Metropolitan Museum of Art API documentation and adds it.

Which apps can Metropolitan Museum of Art connect to?

Any app in the catalog; the list on this page pairs Metropolitan Museum of Art with each of them. If the other app is missing, point your agent at its API documentation and it builds the connector.

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.