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Art Institute of Chicago MCP

This community MCP server enables agents to search the Art Institute of Chicago's collection of approximately 133,000 artworks, artists, exhibitions, and audio guides. It supports text searches with filters, facet counts, full record retrieval including provenance and IIIF image URLs, and audio-guide transcript searches without requiring an API key.

Package and access

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Art Institute of Chicago MCP logo, by cyanheadsCommunity listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by cyanheads
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What you can do with it

  • Search artworks by text and filters
  • Fetch full artwork records with provenance
  • Search artists and exhibitions
  • Search audio-guide transcripts

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.3.0
mcp-registry: io.github.cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server@0.3.0Source repository
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Packages and installation

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@cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server 0.3.0

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@cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server package definition
{
  "version": "0.3.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "@cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server",
  "runtimeHint": "npx",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "AIC_CONTACT",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Contact the museum can reach (an email or URL, printable ASCII), sent in the AIC-User-Agent header on every request. Defaults to the repository URL; set your own for any deployment."
    },
    {
      "name": "AIC_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "50",
      "description": "Outbound request budget per minute for api.artic.edu (1-600). Defaults to 50, under the published 60 per minute anonymous limit."
    },
    {
      "name": "MCP_LOG_LEVEL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "info",
      "description": "Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn')."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "art-institute-of-chicago-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server@0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AIC_CONTACT": "<YOUR_AIC_CONTACT>",
        "AIC_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE": "<YOUR_AIC_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "art-institute-of-chicago-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server@0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AIC_CONTACT": "<YOUR_AIC_CONTACT>",
        "AIC_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE": "<YOUR_AIC_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "art-institute-of-chicago-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server@0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AIC_CONTACT": "<YOUR_AIC_CONTACT>",
        "AIC_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE": "<YOUR_AIC_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "art-institute-of-chicago-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/art-institute-chicago-mcp-server@0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AIC_CONTACT": "<YOUR_AIC_CONTACT>",
        "AIC_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE": "<YOUR_AIC_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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