Art Institute of Chicago Collection provides AI assistants with natural language access to one of the world's premier encyclopedic art museums, enabling rich interactions with over 50,000 artworks. Key features: - Search artworks by title with relevance scoring and pagination support - Full-text search across the entire collection metadata - Find works by specific artists with detailed artist information - Retrieve comprehensive artwork data including descriptions, provenance, and exhibition history - Access high-resolution images of artworks including masterpieces like Edward Hopper's Nighthawks - Interactive art gallery generation prompt for creating curated visual experiences of specific artists' works

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Art Institute of Chicago MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides access to the Art Institute of Chicago Collection through natural language interactions. This server allows AI models to search the art collection at the Art Institute of Chicago and have artworks available as a Resource.

Features

This server provides AI models with the following tools for interacting with the art collection. The server also includes a prompt, art-gallery that will generate an interactive art gallery for a specific artist.

1. Search By Title (search-by-title)

Search for artworks by title in the Art Institute of Chicago

  Title: Nighthawks
  Artwork ID: 111628
  Thumbnail alt text: Scene in a diner, viewed through wrap-around glass windows, at night on an empty urban street. A light-skinned man and woman, he in a suit and she in a red dress, sit together at a triangular wood bar, eyes downcast. At left sits another man, his back to the viewer. Behind the counter is a light-skinned man in a white uniform. The interior lights cast a yellow glow that spills onto the street in pale green. Above the diner a sign reads, "Phillies."
  Score: 1055.3839
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  Title: Nighthawks
  Artwork ID: 118165
  Thumbnail alt text: A work made of chromogenic print.
  Score: 57.28689
  Pagination Info
  Total: 2
  Total Pages: 1
  Current Page: 1
  

2. Get a specific artwork (get-artwork-by-id)

Gets additional information, including the image if available, for a piece of art based on it's id.

  Title: Nighthawks
  Artist: Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967)
  Artist ID: 34996
  Description: About Nighthawks Edward Hopper recollected, “unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.” In an all-night diner, three customers sit at the counter opposite a server, each appear to be lost in thought and disengaged from one another. The composition is tightly organized and spare in details: there is no entrance to the establishment, no debris on the streets. Through harmonious geometric forms and the glow of the diner’s electric lighting, Hopper created a serene, beautiful, yet enigmatic scene. Although inspired by a restaurant Hopper had seen on Greenwich Avenue in New York, the painting is not a realistic transcription of an actual place. As viewers, we are left to wonder about the figures, their relationships, and this imagined world.
  Image ID: 831a05de-d3f6-f4fa-a460-23008dd58dda
  Place of Origin: United States
  Dimensions: 84.1 × 152.4 cm (33 1/8 × 60 in.)
  Medium: Oil on canvas
  Credit Line: Friends of American Art Collection
  Department: Arts of the Americas
  Is On View: Yes
  Main Reference Number: 1942.51
  Has not been viewed much: No
  Date Start: 1942
  Date End: 1942
  Date: 1942
  Fiscal Year: 1942
  Is Public Domain: No
  Gallery: Gallery 262
  Artwork Type: Painting
  Artist Title: Edward Hopper
  Artist Titles: Edward Hopper
  Style Title: Modernism
  

  **image encoded in base64 if available and includeImage is true
  

3. Full text search (full-text-search)

Performs a full text search of artworks whose metadata contains the search query.

``` Title: Untitled Artwork ID: 62290 Thumbnail alt text: A work made of oil and enamel on paper, mounted on composition board. Score: 108.70728

----- ... ... ----- Title: Homage to the Square: Light Passage Artwork ID: 5569 Thumbnail alt text: Painting of overlapping squares in grey, yellow, gold, and orange. Score: 104.18398

Pagination I