Art Institute Chicago MCP server

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

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How Art Institute Chicago compares

Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score: 92/100; higher than 90% of 3,470 Web search servers
Uptime: 100%; of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%
Response time: 507 ms; faster than 29% of 2,238 Web search servers

Release history: 6 versions in the registry since 2026-10-01, latest 2026-11-04, typically one every 6 days.

Install Art Institute Chicago in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

claude mcp add --transport http art-institute-chicago-mcp-server https://art-institute-chicago.caseyjhand.com/mcp

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What the publisher says

From the Art Institute Chicago repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

@cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection: artworks, artists, exhibitions, and audio guides via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 6 Tools • 1 Resource

Overview

The Art Institute of Chicago's collection through the museum's public API: about 133,000 artworks, plus artists, exhibitions, and audio-guide stops. Search artworks with text, structured filters, and facet counts; read full records with provenance, exhibition history, and rights-aware IIIF image URLs; resolve artists to ids; find exhibitions by topic or date; and search audio-guide transcripts. Runs as a stdio process or a local Streamable HTTP server, with no API key.

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Art Institute Chicago: common questions

Is Art Institute Chicago MCP server safe?: Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (92/100). Read the Art Institute Chicago safety report
How do I install Art Institute Chicago?: It runs remotely at art-institute-chicago.caseyjhand.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
Does Art Institute Chicago need an API key?: No secret keys are declared. It reads 11 settings from the environment.
Is Art Institute Chicago maintained?: The last commit was 34 days ago (2026-10-01). The latest release is v0.3.1.
Is Art Institute Chicago up?: 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
What can I use instead of Art Institute Chicago?: Servers from other publishers that do the same job: screenpipe MCP server, Claude Code Ultimate Guide MCP server and Airweave Search MCP server.
How does Art Institute Chicago compare with other Web search MCP servers?: safety score 92/100 (higher than 90% of 3,470 Web search servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%); response time 507 ms (faster than 29% of 2,238 Web search servers). Full comparison.

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Rating: —
Safety grade: A · 92/100
Stars: 0
Downloads/wk: –
Price: Free
Licence: Apache-2.0
Transport: Remote · mixed
Uptime: 100% · 28/28 checks
Version: 0.3.1
Category: Web search
Last release: 2026-10-01

Credentials it needs

AIC_CONTACTContact the museum can reach (an email or URL, printable ASCII), sent in the AIC-User-Agent header on every request. Defaults to the repository URL; set your own for any deployment.
AIC_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTEOutbound request budget per minute for api.artic.edu (1-600). Defaults to 50, under the published 60 per minute anonymous limit.
MCP_LOG_LEVELSets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn').
MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPESelects the HTTP transport.
MCP_HTTP_HOSTThe hostname for the HTTP server.
MCP_HTTP_PORTThe port to run the HTTP server on.
MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATHThe endpoint path for the MCP server.
MCP_AUTH_MODEAuthentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'.
AIC_CONTACTContact the museum can reach (an email or URL, printable ASCII), sent in the AIC-User-Agent header on every request. Defaults to the repository URL; set your own for any deployment.
AIC_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTEOutbound request budget per minute for api.artic.edu (1-600). Defaults to 50, under the published 60 per minute anonymous limit.
MCP_LOG_LEVELSets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn').

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https://art-institute-chicago.caseyjhand.com/mcp

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