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Art Institute Chicago Mcp Server

io.github.cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server · v0.3.1

Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection: artworks, artists, exhibitions, and audio guides.

Connect Remote server

Terminal
claude mcp add --transport http art-institute-chicago-mcp-server https://art-institute-chicago.caseyjhand.com/mcp
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "art-institute-chicago-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://art-institute-chicago.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "art-institute-chicago-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://art-institute-chicago.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
Claude Desktop
Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
URL: https://art-institute-chicago.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Tools 6 found in our last check

  • artic_search_artworks

    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 ar…

  • artic_get_artworks

    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,…

  • artic_search_artists

    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…

  • artic_search_exhibitions

    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_…

  • artic_search_audio_guide

    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 relat…

  • artic_lookup_vocabulary

    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…

Details

Endpointhttps://art-institute-chicago.caseyjhand.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
Package@cyanheads/[email protected] (NPM, stdio)
Package@cyanheads/[email protected] (NPM, streamable-http)
First published4 Nov 2026
Last updated4 Nov 2026
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