# Harvard Art Museums API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/harvard/art-museums/  
**Provider:** Harvard University — https://apis.io/providers/harvard/  
**Base URL:** https://api.harvardartmuseums.org  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/harvardartmuseums/api-docs

Harvard Art Museums API is one of 14 APIs that [Harvard University](https://apis.io/providers/harvard/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Museums, Art, Collection, Cultural Heritage, and IIIF. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://github.com/harvardartmuseums/api-docs
- **Signup** — https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/api
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/harvardartmuseums

## Other Harvard University APIs (12)

- [Harvard Dataverse API](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/dataverse/)
- [Harvard Dataverse OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/dataverse-oai/)
- [Harvard Library LibraryCloud API (Open Metadata)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/librarycloud/)
- [Harvard University Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/identity-federation/)
- [Legal Ed Skills Hub (Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/lil-lawskills/)
- [Caselaw Access Project bulk data (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/caselaw-access-project/)
- [Perma.cc API (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/perma/)
- [Harvard API Portal (HUIT)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/api-portal/)
- [Harvard DASH institutional repository (4Science-managed DSpace)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/dash/)
- [HOLLIS library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/hollis/)
- [Harvard Figshare tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/figshare/)
- [Canvas LMS tenancy (Instructure)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/canvas/)

## Tags

Museums, Art, Collection, Cultural Heritage, IIIF

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/art-museums/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/harvard/.