Museum Art Collections: Met, Art Institute Chicago & Cleveland avatar

Museum Art Collections: Met, Art Institute Chicago & Cleveland

Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 artworks

Try for free
Go to Apify Store
Museum Art Collections: Met, Art Institute Chicago & Cleveland

Museum Art Collections: Met, Art Institute Chicago & Cleveland

Try for free

Search 1 million+ artworks at The Met, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cleveland Museum of Art: title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, department, public domain flag and high-resolution image links. Open access (CC0) data.

Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 artworks

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Pankaj Bhatia

Pankaj Bhatia

Maintained by Community

Actor stats

0

Bookmarked

2

Total users

1

Monthly active users

6 days ago

Last modified

Categories

AI

Other

Security

Limited permissions

Share

Search more than a million artworks at three of the largest open access museum collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cleveland Museum of Art. One search covers all three. Each row has the title, artist and artist details, date (with start and end years), medium, dimensions, department, classification, culture or place of origin, accession number, a public domain flag and high-resolution image and thumbnail links, plus the museum's object page. No login or API key is needed.

Who is it for?

  • Designers, publishers and print-on-demand sellers looking for public domain artwork images.
  • AI and dataset builders who need image-and-caption pairs with clear open licensing.
  • Teachers, students and art historians gathering works by artist, period or subject.
  • App and website developers building art galleries, quizzes or wallpapers.

How to use it

  1. Enter search terms such as an artist, subject, style or culture (the default is sunflowers).
  2. Choose the museums (all three by default).
  3. Keep Only artworks with images on, and turn on Only public domain if you need images you can reuse freely.
  4. Set Max results per term and museum and click Start.

Input example

{"searchTerms": ["Monet", "samurai armor", "Egyptian cat"], "museums": ["met", "aic", "cleveland"], "publicDomainOnly": true, "maxResultsPerSearch": 50}

Output example

{"museum": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art", "objectId": "436524", "title": "Sunflowers", "artist": "Vincent van Gogh", "date": "1887", "medium": "Oil on canvas", "dimensions": "17 x 24 in. (43.2 x 61 cm)", "department": "European Paintings", "isPublicDomain": true, "imageUrl": "https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/original/DP-41223-001.jpg", "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436524"}

How much does it cost?

Pay-per-event: a small fee per artwork returned, plus a tiny per-run start fee. There is no subscription and no separate platform usage cost. For example, 1,000 artworks cost about $0.50. Searches with no matches and error rows are not charged. Use Max results per term and museum or Maximum cost per run to cap your spending.

Use it through the API, integrations or AI agents

Run it from the Apify API, on a schedule, or connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n or Google Sheets. AI agents can find and call it through the Apify MCP server. Output is clean JSON with the same fields on every run.

FAQ

Is it legal? Yes. All three museums publish their collection data through official open access APIs, and the data is released under CC0. Images marked public domain (isPublicDomain: true) can be reused freely. Other images may still be under copyright, so check the museum page before you reuse them. This tool is not affiliated with any of the museums.

Why do results differ between museums? Each museum runs its own search engine and catalogs works in its own way, so the same term can match different numbers of works.

Can I download the images? The tool returns direct image links. Download only the images you are allowed to use.

Does it include donor names? No. Credit lines are left out.

More tools from this developer

You might also like

Liveauctioneers Art Prices Realized Scraper avatar

Liveauctioneers Art Prices Realized Scraper

jungle_synthesizer/liveauctioneers-art-prices-realized-scraper

Scrape prices-realized data from LiveAuctioneers for sold art lots. Returns hammer price, estimates, artist, medium, auction house, and lot details. Supports fine-art category browsing, keyword search, auction-house filtering, and BYO lot-URL list.

User avatar

BowTiedRaccoon

9

Cleveland Museum Art Scraper - Open Collection Data avatar

Cleveland Museum Art Scraper - Open Collection Data

benthepythondev/cleveland-art-museum-scraper

Search Cleveland Museum of Art objects and export titles, artists, dates, culture, technique, dimensions, license and images.

User avatar

Ben

2

Saatchi Art Original Art Listings Scraper avatar

Saatchi Art Original Art Listings Scraper

jungle_synthesizer/saatchiart-original-art-listings-scraper

Scrape original artwork listings from Saatchi Art. Extract title, artist, price, style, medium, dimensions, and availability from 1M+ original artworks. Filter by category, style, subject, or supply your own listing URLs.

User avatar

BowTiedRaccoon

3

🖼️ Art Museum Intelligence - Met & Art Institute Data avatar

🖼️ Art Museum Intelligence - Met & Art Institute Data

benthepythondev/art-museum-intelligence

Access world-class art collections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago. Search 500,000+ artworks including paintings, sculptures, photographs, and artifacts. Get high-resolution images, artist info, historical context, and exhibition data.

User avatar

Ben

2

Cleveland Museum of Art Scraper avatar

Cleveland Museum of Art Scraper

parseforge/cleveland-museum-of-art-scraper

Scrapes Cleveland Museum of Art open access collection. Returns artwork title, artist, date, medium, and image URL. Filter by keyword, department, or object type.

User avatar

ParseForge

2

DeviantArt Search Scraper avatar

DeviantArt Search Scraper

powerai/deviantart-search-scraper

Search and discover artwork on DeviantArt with comprehensive metadata extraction including titles, artist information, thumbnails, and direct links.

User avatar

PowerAI

28

Fine Art Auction Results: Sotheby’s Price Comps avatar

Fine Art Auction Results: Sotheby’s Price Comps

getascraper/fine-art-public-realized-price-feed

Scrape public fine art auction results from Sotheby’s, Bidsquare, and The Saleroom. Export lot details, estimates, realized prices, artists, condition, and source URLs as JSON or CSV for art valuation and market research.

User avatar

GetAScraper

3

Met Museum Open Access Art Scraper avatar

Met Museum Open Access Art Scraper

jungle_synthesizer/met-museum-open-access-art-scraper

Scrape The Met's open-access collection API. Returns full metadata for 490k+ objects: title, artist, department, medium, dimensions, classification, culture, credit line, AAT tags, and CC0 image URLs. Modes: keyword search, department walk, incremental, and direct object-ID lookup.

User avatar

BowTiedRaccoon

2

MM

Met Museum Scraper — No Login, $10/1k

fortuitous_pirate/met-museum-scraper

Search and scrape artwork metadata from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 480,000+ objects spanning 5,000 years. Returns artist, medium, date, images, department, and museum URL. No login or cookies. MCP-ready for AI agents. $10 per 1,000 records.

User avatar

Fortuitous Pirate

2

Cleveland Museum of Art — CC0 Artworks, Artists and Dates avatar

Cleveland Museum of Art — CC0 Artworks, Artists and Dates

alaudinburki/cleveland-artworks

Search the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access collection and get flat rows — title, creators, creation date, culture, medium, department and licence status. Free public API, no key.

User avatar

alaudin burki

2