The Met Museum MCP Server enables AI models to interact with The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection through natural language queries. Key capabilities include:
List Departments: Retrieve all departments in The Met.
Search Museum Objects: Search for objects by keywords, title, or department, with options to filter by availability of images.
Get Museum Object: Fetch detailed information about a specific object by ID, including metadata and images (if available).
Accesses the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access data, including images available under Open Access which can be added to the server's resources and displayed to users.
Met Museum MCP Server
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides access to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection through natural language interactions. This server allows AI models to search The Met's art collection and have art works available as a Resource.
Features
This server provides AI models the following tools to interact with the art collection of The Met
1. List Departments (list-departments)
Lists all the valid departments at The Met
Inputs:
None
Output:
Department ID: 1, Display Name: American Decorative Arts Department ID: 3, Display Name: Ancient Near Eastern Art ...
2. Search Museum Objects (search-museum-objects)
Search for various objects in The Met based on the inputs.
Inputs:
q(string): The search term e.g. sunflowershasImages(boolean, optional, default: false): Only search for objects with imagestitle(boolean, optional, default: false): Returns objects that match the query, specifically searching against the title field for objects.departmentId(number, optional): Returns objects that are a part of a specific department.
Outputs:
Total objects found: 54 Object IDs: 436532, 789578, 436840, 438722,...
3. Get Museum Objects (get-museum-object)
Get a specific object from The Met containing all open access data about that object, including its image (if the image is available under Open Access).
If there is an image it is added to the Resource of the server via the title of the object.
Inputs:
objectId(number): The id of the object to retrievereturnImage(boolean, optional, default: true): Whether to return the image (if available) of the object and add it to the server resources
Outputs:
Title: Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler) Artist: Vincent van Gogh Artist Bio: Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise Department: European Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm) Primary Image URL: https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/original/DT1502_cropped2.jpg Tags: Men, Self-portraitsIf returnImage is true
**base64 encoding of jpeg image**
Usage with Claude Desktop
Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:
Usage with LibreChat
Add the following in your librechat.yaml
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Example queries
Here some questions you can ask the AI model when this server in connected:
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.
License
This MCP server is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.
Disclaimer
This library is not officially associated with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is a third-party implementation of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API with a MCP Server.