Museums APIs

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Images d'art	The Images d'art API allows developers access to the RMN- Grand Palais (Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais) database. This JSON formatted database offers images and metadata of over a...	Art	14	REST
Omeka	Omeka API allows developers to freely integrate their applications with the Omeka's web publishing platform, specifically for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and...	Publishing	5	REST
Natural History Museum	This REST API lets users access the data portal of London's Natural History Museum to retrieve collection and research datasets for use in software or applications. The datasets, returned in JSON,...	Museums	27	REST
Artsy	The Artsy API provides access to images of historic artwork and related information on artsy.net for educational and other non-commercial purposes. Artsy’s mission is to make all the world’s art...	Art	57	REST
The Portal to Texas History	The Portal to Texas History is a resource to learn about past events occurred in Texas. The organization offers APIs for the Corpus Cristi Museum of Science and History and invites developers to...	Museums	3	REST
Balboa Park Commons	Balboa Park Commons API can be a useful help for developers interested to categorize, organize and retrieve museums' data. In the main page, users can find query results along with image, title,...	Museums	4	REST
Fitzwilliam Museum	The Fitzwilliam Museum is the principle museum of the University of Cambridge. The museum exposes the object records from its online catalog through a RESTful API. The API is able to query these...	Education	5	REST
Museet for Sofart	Museet for Sofart, The Maritime Museum of Denmark, tells the story of Denmark's maritime shipping history. The Museet for Sofart API enables programmatic searching of the museum's databases. Exposed...	Education	6	REST
Finnish National Gallery	The Finnish National Gallery is Finland's largest organization of art museums, managing more than 36,000 works of art. The Finnish National Gallery API is a web service capable of delivering...	Education	6	REST
Canadiana Discovery Portal	The Canadiana Discovery Portal is a free web service allowing users to search the digital collections of Canadian libraries, archives, and museums. The Canadiana Discovery Portal API allows...	Education	8	REST
The Walters Art Museum Collections	The Walters Art Museum is a Baltimore art museum. The museum exposes data and images describing the works of art in their collection via API. The Walters Art Museum Collections API accesses...	Education	6	REST
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek	The German Digital Library ("Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek" in german) is the central web portal for the digital cultural heritage in Germany. It holds metadata, previews and links to digitized or...	Education	3	REST
Royal Albert Memorial Museum	Located in Devon, England The Royal Albert Memorial Museum...	Education	4	REST
Vesica	Vesica is an online application for managing art, heritage, and cultural collections. Vesica is a complete end-to-end solution for documenting, managing, and marketing art collections of all sizes....	Enterprise	3	REST
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum	The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution and is the only museum in the U.S. devoted to historical and contemporary design. Collections and exhibitions are...	Education	9	REST
SOCH	The service aggregates databases of cultural resources in Sweden, such as museums and objects in their collections, monuments, historical sites, and similar items important to Swedish culture....	Search	2	REST
APPELLO	The APPELLO API was developed to connect to sets of EpiDoc encoded documents and to extract information from them. EpiDoc is a set of guidelines for the structured markup of epigraphic documents in...	Tools	2	REST
Museumsvokabular	Inventorying and cataloging the immense variety of objects found in museums requires extensive specialized vocabularies. However, information on these vocabularies is often widely dispersed. The...	Education	4	RPC
Raphael Research Resource	The service exposes linked data from the U.K National Gallery's collection of works by the 16th-century painter Raphael. It provides access to images with descriptive text and metadata. Information...	Education	3	REST
Rijksmuseum	The service gives access to metadata and digital images related to over 100,000 artworks from the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The museum chronicles the Dutch heritage...	Education	11	REST
Western Australian Museum	The Western Australian Museum comprises six public sites, housing over 4.5 million historical objects. The Museum also manages 200 shipwreck sites off of the Western Australian coast. The Western...	Education	6	REST
Information Environment Service Registry	An academic "Yellow Pages" to support discovery and use of scholarly resources. Its catalog of information about electronic resources and research collections enables discovery of new resources and...	Search	3	REST
Culture Grid	Service from the UK Collections Trust to access information about collections of museums, libraries, or archives. Supports services to open up UK cultural institution collections for public benefit...	Search	1	REST
Amsterdam Museum	The Amsterdam Museum is a museum of the history of the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The museum uses AdLib Information Systems for its online collections, which expose a number of photos, paintings...	Education	15	REST
Museum Victoria	Museum Victoria is the science and culture museum of the state of Victoria, Australia. Museum Victoria operates the Melbourne Museum, the Scienceworks science museum, the Melbourne Planetarium, and...	Education	4	REST

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