Met Museum MCP server

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by cyanheads·io.github.cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server·v0.9.0·4 stars

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Search the Met collection, browse by department or update date, fetch full records and CC0 images.

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How Met Museum compares

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

Safety score: 93/100; higher than 95% of 3,470 Web search servers
Uptime: 100%; of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%
Response time: 557 ms; faster than 26% of 2,238 Web search servers
GitHub stars: 4; more than 75% of 1,786 Web search servers
Downloads a week: 912; more than 94% of 827 Web search servers with a package

Release history: 6 versions in the registry since 2026-09-13, latest 2026-10-15, typically one every 5 days.

Install Met Museum in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

claude mcp add --transport http met-museum-mcp-server https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp

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What the publisher says

From the Met Museum repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

@cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server Search the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, fetch full artwork records and open-access images via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 3 Tools

Public Hosted Server: https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Overview

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's public Collection API. Search the collection by keyword and filters, then fetch full object records — metadata, provenance, and CC0 open-access images — from any MCP client. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.

Tools

Capability reference

metlistdepartments tool

No input required — returns all 19 curatorial departments in one call
Each entry pairs departmentId (numeric) with displayName (e.g., "European Paintings", "Egyptian Art")
departmentId values are the valid inputs for metsearchcollections's departmentId filter

metsearchcollections tool

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

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Met Museum: common questions

Is Met Museum MCP server safe?: Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (93/100). Read the Met Museum safety report
How do I install Met Museum?: It runs remotely at met-museum.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 Met Museum need an API key?: No secret keys are declared. It reads 8 settings from the environment.
Is Met Museum maintained?: The last commit was 35 days ago (2026-09-30). The latest release is v0.9.0.
Is Met Museum 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 Met Museum?: Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Brave Search MCP server, Airweave Search MCP server and Claude Code Explorer MCP server.
How does Met Museum compare with other Web search MCP servers?: safety score 93/100 (higher than 95% of 3,470 Web search servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%); response time 557 ms (faster than 26% of 2,238 Web search servers). Full comparison.

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Rating: —
Safety grade: A · 93/100
Stars: 4
Downloads/wk: 912
Price: Free
Licence: Apache-2.0
Transport: Remote · mixed
Uptime: 100% · 28/28 checks
Version: 0.9.0
Category: Web search
Last release: 2026-09-30

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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_SESSION_MODEHTTP session mode: auto, stateful, or stateless. This server explicitly sets stateless; the framework schema default is auto.
MCP_AUTH_MODEAuthentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'.
MCP_LOG_LEVELSets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn').

Endpoint

https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp

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