MCP server for the Rijksmuseum collections with extended metadata, semantic and full-text search, provenance analysis, similarity comparisons and spatial queries.
README
rijksmuseum-mcp+ lets you explore the Rijksmuseum's artwork collections through natural conversation with an AI assistant. It does this by creating a bridge between the AI system's chat environment and an enriched copy of the museum's open-access, curated metadata. This in turn enables many additional features beyond those offered by the Rijksmuseum's collections portal, including full-text semantic search, structured provenance analysis, multiple similarity comparisons, AI-based visual analysis, and geospatial search. It works best when used together with rijksmuseum-iconclass-mcp, an analogous resource for Iconclass.
Please do not treat the data made available by this resource as current or authoritative. It is based on data copied from the Rijksmuseum on May 2nd, 2026. For current data, please always use the Rijksmuseum's own search portal and APIs. Nor have the (in small part, also LLM based) enrichments of the museum's geospatial and provenance data been reviewed or endorsed by the Rijksmuseum. This is an early pre-release of a technology demo that is still in active development. It is likely to include errors.
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