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Met Museum

Search and explore 500,000+ artworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.

Access The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of over 500,000 artworks with metadata, provenance, and open-access images. Search by keyword, department, medium, geography, and date range to discover paintings, sculptures, photographs, and other objects.

Try asking Muse: "Show me Renaissance paintings from Italy in the Met's collection."

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Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (io.github.cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server) · First listed September 25, 2026

Last 24 hours

Each bar is one check, every 15 minutes. Green means it answered. Last checked 20 min ago.

Is it safe to connect?

What Muse can see: It does not ask you to sign in, so it cannot see your accounts. It only sees what Muse sends it from your request.

Before it acts: Read what Muse plans to do before you approve it, and remove the app from Muse when you stop using it.

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How to add it to Muse

Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Copy the request below and paste it into Muse. Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

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https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.

Technical details: safety screening, tools, response time and recent checks

Response time at the last check: 318ms. Worked in 100% of checks over 30 days.

Screening · September 25, 2026

Screened, no issues found

MCP handshake
Pass
Answered in 342ms
Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS)
Pass
met-museum.caseyjhand.com not flagged
Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database
Pass
No malicious-package advisories
Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text
Pass
3 tools read, nothing found
Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases
Pass
None found
Domain and redirects
Pass
No redirects off the domain
AI review of purpose and tool behavior
Pass
No concerns

Screening looks for known threats and hidden instructions at the time of the check, and runs again weekly and whenever the tool list changes. It cannot see the server's code, so only connect what you need and review what Muse asks to do. How screening works.

Tools · 3

met_list_departmentsReturn the 19 curatorial departments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each with its numeric departmentId and display name — the valid values for the met_search_collections departmentId filter.
met_search_collectionsSearch the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection by keyword and optional filters. Returns the total match count and one page of matching object IDs, which met_get_object resolves to full records. Relevance is keyword-based, not semantic; department and geographic filters narrow r
met_get_objectFetch full records for one or more Met Museum object IDs. Accepts up to 20 IDs per call and returns partial success — a single 404 does not fail the whole batch; per-ID failures are reported separately. Object IDs come from met_search_collections. Non-public-domain objects return

Recent checks

2026-09-28 09:16:07live · HTTP 200318ms
2026-09-28 07:00:51live · HTTP 200464ms
2026-09-28 04:31:11live · HTTP 200444ms
2026-09-28 02:15:55live · HTTP 200521ms
2026-09-28 00:00:47live · HTTP 200760ms
2026-09-27 21:31:05live · HTTP 200793ms
2026-09-27 19:15:58live · HTTP 2001010ms
2026-09-27 16:46:28live · HTTP 2001552ms
2026-09-27 14:46:41live · HTTP 2001005ms
2026-09-27 12:31:23live · HTTP 2002535ms
2026-09-27 10:16:00live · HTTP 200730ms
2026-09-27 07:46:27live · HTTP 2002014ms

Link

https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Questions about Met Museum in Muse

How do I connect Met Museum to Muse?

Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use Met Museum to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Is Met Museum working right now?

At the last check (September 28, 2026, 09:16 UTC) the endpoint was working, answering in 318ms. Over the last 7 days it answered 100% of health checks. It is checked every 15 minutes.

Is Met Museum safe to connect to Muse?

It was screened on September 25, 2026 with the result "screened, no issues found". Screening checks the domain against threat feeds and reads the tools for hidden instructions and requests for passwords or card numbers. It cannot see the server's code, so grant only the access you need.

What can Met Museum do in Muse?

It exposes 3 tools, including met_list_departments, met_search_collections, met_get_object. For example, you could ask Muse: "Show me Renaissance paintings from Italy in the Met's collection."

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