Metropolitan Museum API

Discover over 470,000 works of art from The Met collection and beyond with our API!

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This API is best for discovering works from The Met collection and beyond

The Metropolitan Museum API is a valuable resource for developers to get access to artworks and building applications with it. Developers can use the API to access artworks via searchable API endpoints, view image previews, and access programmatic information on The Met’s collections, allowing users to interactively explore over 470,000 works of art to build app-based experiences. Developers are also able to filter art objects by filterable API endpoints and generate direct links for downloading entire collections for use in designing engaging digital experiences.

Key features

• Provides access to over 470
• 000 high-quality images collected from the Met collection for bulk download and use
• access to digital collection features
• current and historic collection data
• biographic and bibliographic information
• open access designations and work title

Potential use cases

• Met Museum Virtual Tour: Create a virtual tour of the museum, using the API to add interactive features for each artwork, such as galleries organized by period, artist, or genre; audio/video; background information about the artwork. Users could also create their own custom itineraries and save their experiences to the app to be revisited.
• Met Museum Art Finder: Create an interactive map of the museum galleries, allowing users to search and browse artwork quickly and efficiently. Using the API, users could select filtering criteria, such as artist, medium, or time period, to focus on specific works with which they are interested. Use the API to provide additional detailed information, previews, and access to collections related to each artwork and the artist who created it.
• Met Objects of Interest: Create a tracking app that lets users explore objects of interest in The Met collection as identified by curators, scholars, and preservation specialists. By using the API to gather images, interactive features, and information about art objects and collections, the app could provide a sense of connection to The Met and its objects for users.

Related Technologies

• Harvard Art Museums API
• Rijksmuseum API
• Google Arts and Culture API