met-museum-mcp-server
MET Museum collection via MCP — 500K+ artworks, metadata, provenance, open-access images.
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MET Museum collection via MCP — 500K+ artworks, metadata, provenance, open-access images.
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| met_list_departments | Return the 19 curatorial departments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each with its numeric departmentId and display name — the valid values for the met_search_collections departmentId filter. |
| met_search_collections | Search the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection by keyword and optional filters. Returns the total match count and a page of matching object IDs, which met_get_object resolves to full records. Relevance is keyword-based, not semantic; department and geographic filters narrow results more than a longer query. The medium parameter maps to the classification field (pass "Paintings", "Drawings", etc., not material descriptions like "Oil on canvas"). Every filter draws on a partial upstream index, so a filtered search omits some objects whose own record satisfies the filter — the results are not exhaustive, and dropping the filter is what widens them. A filtered search is checked against the same query run unfiltered, so its results match the keyword; when that check is too costly to complete the page is returned unchecked and the response says so in its notice. isPublicDomain selects CC0-licensed images; hasImages also includes copyrighted works. isPublicDomain and isHighlight are opt-in filters that accept true only; the upstream index is unsound on the false arm. isOnView restricts results to works currently on display in a Met gallery. |
| met_get_object | Fetch full records for one or more Met Museum object IDs. Accepts up to 20 IDs per call and returns partial success — a single 404 does not fail the whole batch; per-ID failures are reported separately. Object IDs come from met_search_collections. Non-public-domain objects return empty image URLs. The constituents array is null for anonymous or unattributed works; tags and measurements are null when the Met records none. Records are returned whole and never truncated, so a batch of unusually large records may return fewer than requested — any that did not fit are listed in deferred[] with their sizes, to be re-requested in a follow-up call. |