#culture

The dish most associated with each country as an API — a small, fun reference for travel, food, quiz and trivia apps. Built on the open country-json national-dish dataset and enriched with each country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and Unicode flag emoji. Look up a country's national dish by country name or code, search dishes and countries by keyword (for example, find every country whose national dish involves rice), or list them all. Served from memory — always fast.

api.oanor.com/nationaldishes-api

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) collection as an API — over 1.2 million objects spanning 5,000 years of art, design and performance, from textiles, ceramics and furniture to fashion, photographs, prints and jewellery. Search and filter the collection by keyword, maker, place of origin or material/technique, optionally limited to objects that carry an image. Fetch any object by its system number for the full record: title, makers, production date, place, materials and techniques, categories and styles, gallery location and high-resolution IIIF imagery. Browse every work by a given maker (e.g. William Morris), or pull a random object. Real museum data, no key needed upstream. Ideal for art and design apps, galleries and slideshows, education and cultural research.

api.oanor.com/vam-api

The Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access collection as an API — more than 60,000 artworks, over 30,000 of them with high-resolution, CC0 (public-domain) images you can use freely. Search and filter the collection by keyword, department, artwork type or artist, optionally limited to pieces that carry an image. Fetch any artwork by id for its full record: title, creators, creation date, culture, medium and technique, dimensions, department, description and "did you know" notes, on-view status and image URLs. Browse all works by a given creator, or pull a random artwork. Real museum data, no key needed upstream. Ideal for art apps, galleries and slideshows, education, generative-art projects and cultural research.

api.oanor.com/clevelandart-api

The Art Institute of Chicago collection as an API — clean JSON, no key. Run a full-text search across 130,000+ artworks and open any piece for its full detail: title, artist, dates, medium, dimensions, place of origin, department and classification, credit line, provenance and exhibition history, whether it is public domain or on view, and high-resolution IIIF images. Browse the collection, search artists for their biography and life dates, and list the museum's exhibitions. Live data straight from artic.edu, one of the world's great art museums. A distinct collection — ideal for art, education and culture apps, image galleries, museum kiosks and creative tools. 7 data endpoints. Authenticated with an x-oanor-key; fair-use rate limits per plan.

api.oanor.com/artic-api

The classical-music repertoire as an API — powered by Open Opus, an open catalogue of classical composers and their works. Search composers by name or browse them by musical epoch (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and beyond), getting each composer's full name, epoch and birth/death years; then list a composer's works, optionally filtered by genre — orchestral, chamber, keyboard, stage, vocal or opera. From Bach and Mozart to Beethoven's 44 orchestral works, it turns the canon of classical music into a clean search-and-browse API. A classical-music repertoire reference — distinct from commercial music catalogues of tracks, artists and albums. Ideal for classical-music, education, concert-programming, streaming and media applications. Open data from Open Opus (CC-BY-SA / CC0).

api.oanor.com/classical-api

The Jewish calendar as an API — powered by Hebcal. Convert any date between the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars (with the formatted Hebrew date and the Jewish events falling on that day), list the Jewish holidays of any year — major and minor festivals, Rosh Chodesh and special Shabbatot — each with its English and Hebrew name, date and category, and get this week's Shabbat candle-lighting time, Torah portion (parashah) and Havdalah time for any location by GeoNames id or coordinates. From Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to Passover, Shavuot and Hanukkah, with Hebrew dates rendered in Hebrew script, it is ideal for calendar, scheduling, event, religious and cultural applications. A Jewish-calendar resource — distinct from secular public-holiday and Islamic prayer-time APIs. Open data from Hebcal (CC-BY 4.0 / GPL).

api.oanor.com/hebcal-api

Every UNESCO World Heritage Site as an API — all 1,236 inscribed sites worldwide (cultural, natural and mixed) from the official UNESCO World Heritage List. Look up any site by its WHC id (e.g. Galápagos Islands, Machu Picchu, Historic Centre of Rome) with its country, exact coordinates, the year it was inscribed and the UNESCO selection criteria. Search and filter by name, country, category (cultural / natural / mixed) and inscription year, or find every World Heritage Site near any coordinate by great-circle distance. Ideal for travel, tourism, maps, education and cultural-discovery apps.

api.oanor.com/heritage-api

Search The Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access collection of 470,000+ objects, fetch full artwork details — artist, date, medium, culture, department, public-domain status and high-resolution images — and list the museum departments. Perfect for art, education, culture and gallery apps.

api.oanor.com/museum-api