Harvard University

Harvard Art Museums API

REST/JSON API to the Harvard Art Museums' collections across 25 documented resources (object, person, exhibition, publication, gallery, classification, culture, medium, period, place, image, iiif, spectrum and more), with pagination, aggregations and IIIF image services. Free key, non-commercial use. Built and run by the museums themselves - the host is their own application on Heroku, not a collections-platform vendor, and the code and docs live in the harvardartmuseums GitHub org. Documentation is 25 markdown files; there is no machine-readable contract, and the API root 301-redirects to the docs repo.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://github.com/harvardartmuseums/api-docs

Other Resources

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Signup
https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/api
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GitHub
https://github.com/harvardartmuseums

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: harvard:art-museums
name: Harvard Art Museums API
x-operator: institution
description: REST/JSON API to the Harvard Art Museums' collections across 25 documented resources (object,
  person, exhibition, publication, gallery, classification, culture, medium, period, place, image, iiif,
  spectrum and more), with pagination, aggregations and IIIF image services. Free key, non-commercial
  use. Built and run by the museums themselves - the host is their own application on Heroku, not a collections-platform
  vendor, and the code and docs live in the harvardartmuseums GitHub org. Documentation is 25 markdown
  files; there is no machine-readable contract, and the API root 301-redirects to the docs repo.
humanURL: https://github.com/harvardartmuseums/api-docs
baseURL: https://api.harvardartmuseums.org
tags:
- Museums
- Art
- Collection
- Cultural Heritage
- IIIF
tags_raw:
- Museums
- Art
- Collections
- Cultural Heritage
- IIIF
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/harvardartmuseums/api-docs
- type: Signup
  url: https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/api
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/harvardartmuseums