io.github.cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server · v0.2.0 · ai-and-media
io.github.cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 1044 ms and exposes 6 tools.
Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection: artworks, artists, exhibitions, and audio guides.
Endpoint: https://art-institute-chicago.caseyjhand.com/mcp (streamable-http)
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| Users (last 30 days) | 0 |
| Handshake | Healthy |
| Auth needed | None |
| Tool count | 6 |
| Latency | 1044 ms |
| Last checked (UTC) | 2026-10-16T07:15:41.084Z |
| Checked (UTC) | Status | Latency | Error |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16T07:15:41.084Z | Healthy | 1044 | |
| 2026-10-15T03:20:48.023Z | Healthy | 2906 |
artic_search_artworks | Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection by text and structured filters, ranked by relevance or sorted by date. Text matches all words across titles, artists, descriptions, provenance, and other catalog fields. Filters combine with AND. Results reach the first 1,000 matches; narrow with filter |
artic_get_artworks | Fetch full Art Institute of Chicago records for the first 10 artworks by id, returning deferred_ids for the rest: description, provenance, exhibition and publication history, dimensions, inscriptions, credit line, categorization, gallery, image URLs with rights status, and related multimedia. Long h |
artic_search_artists | Find artists, cultures, and organizations in the Art Institute of Chicago collection by name, or fetch them by id. Each result carries life dates, agent type, alternate names, how many of the museum's artworks credit them, and up to three of their works, the museum's highlighted works first. Pass an |
artic_search_exhibitions | Search Art Institute of Chicago exhibitions by text, date, artwork_id, or artist_id. Relationship filters cover recorded museum links; an absent link does not prove an artwork or artist never appeared in a show. Results carry dates, gallery, summary, web page, and listed artworks. Pass artwork ids t |
artic_search_audio_guide | Search the Art Institute of Chicago's mobile audio-guide stops by text, matching stop titles and transcripts. Returns each stop's title, MP3 URL, and transcript text. Stops carry no artwork id, so match a stop to a work by its title; for a known artwork, artic_get_artworks related_media lists the re |
artic_lookup_vocabulary | List the values of an Art Institute of Chicago collection vocabulary with how many artworks carry each, most common first, optionally narrowed by a substring. Each value passes to the artic_search_artworks filter of the same name exactly as listed (case is ignored). Counts here span the whole collec |