Art Collection Search searches artworks and artists across open museum collections, cultural aggregators, and global art sources — all from a single query. Browse the Metropolitan Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, DigitalNZ, Japan Search, Wikidata, and more in one place.
Finding art across institutions normally means visiting each museum's website separately. This tool normalizes results into a consistent format with images, institutions, dates, mediums, and record links — so you can compare works across collections, discover artists across cultures, and build art-rich content without manual research.
What you can do
- Search artworks by artist name, title, movement, keyword, or subject across all supported collections
- Filter to a specific museum or source for targeted browsing
- Pull full normalized metadata for any artwork including provenance, medium, dimensions, and record links
- Look up artists by name to get biographies and top works
Who it's for
Researchers, writers, and educators exploring art history. Designers and content creators sourcing public domain imagery. Art enthusiasts discovering works across global institutions without museum memberships.
How to use it
- Use search_artworks with an artist name, movement, or keyword — leave source as "all" to search everything, or narrow to "met", "artic", "cma", or another provider
- Enable has_images: true to filter toward results with usable image URLs for gallery output
- Pick a result and call artwork_details with its provider and ID to get full normalized metadata
- Use search_artists to look up a specific artist and get their biography and notable works
Getting started
search_artworks needs no setup and runs immediately — try any artist name or art movement to get started.
