io.github.cyanheads/smithsonian-mcp-server · v0.3.8 · ai-and-media
io.github.cyanheads/smithsonian-mcp-server is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 382 ms and exposes 6 tools.
Search 14.5M Smithsonian Open Access objects, get CC0 images, find cross-collection connections.
Endpoint: https://smithsonian.caseyjhand.com/mcp (streamable-http)
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| Users (last 30 days) | 0 |
| Handshake | Healthy |
| Auth needed | None |
| Tool count | 6 |
| Latency | 382 ms |
| Last checked (UTC) | 2026-10-16T07:20:35.772Z |
| Checked (UTC) | Status | Latency | Error |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16T07:20:35.772Z | Healthy | 382 | |
| 2026-10-15T03:25:47.482Z | Healthy | 2228 |
smithsonian_search_objects | Recommended first step for open-ended or topic discovery: free-text search across 14.5 million Smithsonian objects, with optional exact filters. Filters narrow by museum unit, object type, indexed date term, culture, geographic place, subject topic, named party, and online/CC0 availability. Returns |
smithsonian_list_terms | Enumerate the valid term vocabulary for an indexed Smithsonian filter field (unit_code, culture, place, date, online_media_type, topic). Terms are a controlled vocabulary — often plural or qualified (e.g. "Paintings", not "Painting") — so guessed filter values tend to return nothing. Returns a page |
smithsonian_get_object | Fetch a normalized catalog metadata projection for a Smithsonian object by its record_id (from smithsonian_search_objects results). Returns the exposed catalog fields — title, dates, description, makers, materials, dimensions, places, cultures, topics, exhibitions, credit line, identifiers, rights, |
smithsonian_get_media | Return every CC0 (open-access) image for a Smithsonian object at multiple resolutions. The tool never returns an empty list — it names the reason instead: an object with nothing digitized, an object whose media is entirely non-image (scanned books, 3D models, sound recordings), and an object whose i |
smithsonian_browse_category | Browse Smithsonian objects within one exact category — a single museum (mode "museum"), culture, indexed date term (mode "period"), object type (mode "medium"), or subject term (mode "topic"). The value must be an exact indexed category term, not free text: resolve museum, culture, period, and topic |
smithsonian_find_related | Discover objects across Smithsonian collections related to a given anchor object, matched on shared metadata signals — culture, period, object type, named parties, and topic terms. Each related object is tagged with the signals that connected it to the anchor; a named-party signal carries the catalo |