Research Artworks in Museum Collections
Search major museum databases to find artworks, verify attributions, and access provenance information.
Research an Artist's Biography and Catalogue
Look up artist biographical data and find their works held across major museum collections.
Tool
Writing a catalogue essay, preparing an exhibition proposal, or authenticating a work all require reliable biographical data and a comprehensive view of an artist's publicly held output. Pulling this from scattered museum databases and secondary sources takes time and produces inconsistent results.
The search_artists and search_artworks skills return artist biographical data alongside works held in accessible collections. You can look up birth dates, nationalities, artistic movements, and the range of a body of work across institutions in a single research session.
Curators, gallery researchers, auction specialists, and art students use this to build a reliable biographical and catalogue foundation before deeper archival research.
Agent Guides
Claude
- Connect ToolRouter in Claude: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
- Ask: "Use art-collection-search to search for the artist Lee Krasner"
- Claude returns biographical data and key details
ChatGPT
- Add ToolRouter to ChatGPT using the MCP JSON configuration
- Ask: "Use art-collection-search to search for the artist Louise Bourgeois"
- ChatGPT returns biographical and catalogue data
Copilot
- Add ToolRouter to your Copilot MCP configuration
- Ask: "Use art-collection-search to search for artist Jean-Michel Basquiat using search_artists"
- Copilot returns structured biographical data
OpenClaw
- Connect ToolRouter to OpenClaw: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
- Ask: "Use art-collection-search to research these artists: [list of artist names]"
- OpenClaw runs search_artists and search_artworks for each
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