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Met Museum MCP Server

io.github.cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server
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Met Museum MCP Server is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. 86 installs a week from npm. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 30 Jul 2026.

MET Museum collection via MCP — 500K+ artworks, metadata, provenance, open-access images.

Installs per day peak 459 · avg 28 · -20% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 39 hours of history · worst hour 75%
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
388 ms
Response time
average over 24h
86
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add met-museum-mcp-server --transport http https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "met-museum-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.met-museum-mcp-server]
url = "https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "met-museum-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "met-museum-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

met
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 is null for untagged objects.
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"). isPublicDomain guarantees CC0-licensed images; hasImages also includes copyrighted works. isOnView restricts results to works currently on display in a Met gallery.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp streamable-http answering 387 ms 7 min ago

Met Museum MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Met Museum MCP Server do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: met_get_object, met_list_departments, met_search_collections. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Met Museum MCP Server working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 388 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Met Museum MCP Server?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Met Museum MCP Server need an API key?
No. Met Museum MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Met Museum MCP Server?
It answers our handshake in 388 ms on average, which is faster than 35% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Met Museum MCP Server?
The npm package @cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server was installed 86 times in the last week. Week over week that is -20%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Met Museum MCP Server open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript and 3 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.