# National Gallery of Art

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/national-gallery-of-art/  
**Website:** https://www.nga.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **National Gallery Of Art Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Art, Federal-Government, Museum, Open Data, Cultural Heritage

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/national-gallery-of-art/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.