National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall. The Gallery provides open access to images and data about its art collection through its Open Access program. While the Gallery does not publish a documented public REST API, it releases a comprehensive open dataset of more than 130,000 artworks and associated creators in CSV format under Creative Commons Zero licensing through its GitHub repository, with reconciled Wikidata Q-item identifiers for research interoperability.

National Gallery of Art is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Art, Federal Government, Museum, Open Data, and Cultural Heritage.

National Gallery of Art’s developer surface includes developer portal and 7 more developer resources.

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9.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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ArtFederal GovernmentMuseumOpen DataCultural Heritage

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Composite quality — 9.2/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

OpenData

OpenData

BulkData

BulkData

Source (apis.yml)

aid: national-gallery-of-art
name: National Gallery of Art
description: The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall. The Gallery
  provides open access to images and data about its art collection through its Open Access program. While the Gallery does
  not publish a documented public REST API, it releases a comprehensive open dataset of more than 130,000 artworks and associated
  creators in CSV format under Creative Commons Zero licensing through its GitHub repository, with reconciled Wikidata Q-item
  identifiers for research interoperability.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/national-gallery-of-art.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/national-gallery-of-art/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-12-25'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Art
- Federal Government
- Museum
- Open Data
- Cultural Heritage
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/national-gallery-of-art-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-gallery-of-art
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nga.gov/
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html
- type: OpenData
  url: https://github.com/NationalGalleryOfArt/opendata
- type: BulkData
  url: https://github.com/NationalGalleryOfArt/opendata/tree/main/data
- type: License
  url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.nga.gov/contact.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com