Met Museum MCP Server
Search the Met collection, browse by department or update date, fetch full records and CC0 images.
Connect it
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
URL: https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcpSettings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode
Create connector with URL: https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"met-museum-mcp-server": {
"url": "https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
}
}
}claude mcp add --transport http met-museum-mcp-server https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp{
"servers": {
"met-museum-mcp-server": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"met-museum-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server@0.9.0"
]
}
}
}claude mcp add met-museum-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server@0.9.04 tools, verified live
met_list_departmentsread-onlyReturn the 19 curatorial departments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each with its numeric departmentId and display name â the valid values for the departmentId filter on met_search_collections and met_list_objects.
met_search_collectionsread-onlySearch the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection by keyword and optional filters. Returns the total match count and one 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. Paging reaches only the first 10,000 matches of any search, so narrow a larger one with
met_list_objectsread-onlyBrowse the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection without a keyword: every object ID in one curatorial department, every object whose record was created or revised on or after a date, or both together. Returns the total count and one page of IDs in ascending order, which met_get_object resolves to full records. With no filter the list is the whole collection (over 500,000 IDs). departmentId takes a
met_get_objectread-onlyFetch full records for one or more Met Museum object IDs. Fetches up to 20 distinct IDs per call; a list of up to 500 (a full search or list page) is accepted, and the distinct IDs past the first 20 come back unrequested in remainingIDs for a follow-up call. Returns partial success â a single 404 does not fail the whole batch; per-ID failures are reported separately. Object IDs come from met_sea
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