io.github.cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server

Fetch full Art Institute of Chicago records for up to 100 artworks by id in one call, returning deferred_ids for the rest: description, provenance, exhibition and publication history, dimensions, inscriptions, credit line, categorization, gallery, image URLs with rights status, and related multimedia. The long text sections are opt-in through sections; request the sections and ids your client can take, since every section on 100 well-documented works comes to about 1.4 MB. Ids come from artic_search_artworks, artic_search_exhibitions, or artic_search_artists.

List the values of an Art Institute of Chicago collection vocabulary with how many artworks carry each, most common first, optionally narrowed by a substring. Each value passes to the artic_search_artworks filter of the same name exactly as listed (case is ignored). Counts here span the whole collection; for counts within a filtered set of artworks, request facets from artic_search_artworks.

Find artists, cultures, and organizations in the Art Institute of Chicago collection by name, or fetch them by id. Each result carries life dates, agent type, alternate names, how many of the museum's artworks credit them, and up to three of their works, the museum's highlighted works first. Pass an id to artic_search_artworks as artist_id to browse all of their works.

Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection by text and structured filters, ranked by relevance or sorted by date or acquisition year. Text matches all words across titles, artists, descriptions, provenance, and other catalog fields; common English words such as the and of are ignored. Filters combine with AND. Results reach the first 1,000 matches; narrow with filters for more. Set limit to 0 with facets to get only counts. Use artic_lookup_vocabulary for filter values and artic_get_artworks for full records.

Search the Art Institute of Chicago's mobile audio-guide stops by text, matching stop titles and transcripts. Returns each stop's title, MP3 URL, and transcript text. Stops carry no artwork id, so match a stop to a work by its title; for a known artwork, artic_get_artworks related_media lists the recordings linked to it. Some stops are in Spanish, and titles are sometimes internal file names. This content is for noncommercial educational and personal use only: keep the copyright notice and cite the Art Institute of Chicago.

Search Art Institute of Chicago exhibitions by text, date, artwork_id, or artist_id. Relationship filters cover recorded museum links; an absent link does not prove an artwork or artist never appeared in a show. For the full exhibition record of one artwork, read the exhibition_history section of artic_get_artworks. Results carry dates, gallery, summary, web page, and listed artworks. Pass artwork ids to artic_get_artworks for full records.