#museum

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.

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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

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