Princeton University Makers API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Princeton University Art Museum Makers API
  version: '1.0'
  summary: Open, no-authentication REST access to the Princeton University Art Museum collections.
  description: 'REST-style service providing developer access to data about the Princeton University Art Museum and its collections. Four resource surfaces are documented: objects (art objects and their tombstone records), makers (artists, cultural groups and other makers), packages (curated groupings) and a full-text search endpoint backed by Elasticsearch. All responses are JSON. No authentication is currently required, though the Museum notes this may change.

    PROVENANCE: the Museum publishes prose documentation in a GitHub repository, not a machine readable contract. This OpenAPI was DERIVED by API Evangelist from that documentation and verified against live responses on 2026-08-19; it was not published by Princeton. Paths, parameters and status codes below were each exercised against the production host.'
  contact:
    name: Princeton University Art Museum API
    url: https://github.com/Princeton-University-Art-Museum/puam-api-docs
  x-operator: institution
  x-provenance:
    method: derived
    source: https://github.com/Princeton-University-Art-Museum/puam-api-docs
    derived_by: API Evangelist university pipeline
    verified_against: https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu
    verified: '2026-08-19'
servers:
- url: https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu
  description: Production collections data host (verified 200, 2026-08-19)
tags:
- name: Makers
  description: Artists, cultural groups and other makers.
paths:
  /makers/{id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Makers
      operationId: getMakerById
      summary: Get a single maker by ID
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 6353
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The maker record.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Maker'
        '404':
          description: No maker with that ID.
components:
  schemas:
    Maker:
      type: object
      properties:
        makerid:
          type: integer
        displayname:
          type: string
        displaybio:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        culturegroup:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        firstname:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        middlename:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        lastname:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        alphasort:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        begindate:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
        enddate:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
        altnames:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object