Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum is the Dutch national museum dedicated to Dutch arts and history, located in Amsterdam. Its RijksData open-data programme exposes more than 800,000 collection object metadata records, 600,000+ public-domain images, 320,000 bibliographic records, 160,000 actor / institution records, and 70,000 controlled-vocabulary terms through a family of JSON-based REST APIs, an OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint, IIIF tile services, and linked-data dumps.

Rijksmuseum publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Collection API, Images API, Object Details API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Art And Design, Museums, Cultural Heritage, Open Data, and Linked Data.

The Rijksmuseum catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Rijksmuseum’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, signup flow, tooling, code examples, and 23 more developer resources.

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37.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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5 APIs

Art And Design Museums Cultural Heritage Open Data Linked Data OAI-PMH IIIFDutch HeritagePublic APIs

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 37.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 6.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.8 / 17

Access Clarity 7.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 11

Contract Governance 2.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

OAI-PMH Harvesting API

Standards-based bulk harvesting endpoint implementing the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH 2.0). Supports ListRecords, GetRecord, ListMetadataF...

Rijksmuseum Collection API

Search and browse the Rijksmuseum collection.

Rijksmuseum Images API

Deep-zoom tile pyramids for object web images.

Rijksmuseum Object Details API

Retrieve the full record for a single object.

Rijksmuseum User Generated Content API

Rijksstudio sets curated by Rijksmuseum's online community.

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Rijksmuseum Collection API

OPEN COLLECTION

Rijksmuseum Collection API

OPEN COLLECTION

Rijksmuseum Collection Images API

OPEN COLLECTION

Rijksmuseum Collection Object Details API

OPEN COLLECTION

Rijksmuseum Collection User Generated Content API

OPEN COLLECTION

Rijksmuseum Usersets API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rijksmuseum Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rijksmuseum Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Rijksmuseum Context

51 classes · 17 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Rijksmuseum API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Rijksmuseum API Rules

15 rules · 6 errors 6 warnings 3 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Rijksmuseum Art Object

46 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Rijksmuseum Art Object Summary

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Rijksmuseum Image Tiles

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Rijksstudio User Set

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Rijksstudio User Set Summary

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 5

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Rijksmuseum Art Object Structure

46 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Rijksmuseum Art Object Summary Structure

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Rijksmuseum Image Tiles Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Rijksmuseum User Set Structure

11 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Rijksmuseum User Set Summary Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 5

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Rijksmuseum Get Collection Object Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Rijksmuseum Get Collection Object Tiles Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Rijksmuseum Get User Set Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Rijksmuseum List User Sets Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Rijksmuseum Search Collection Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Rijksmuseum Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Rijksmuseum Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Rijksmuseum Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Rijksstudio Account For API Key

Signup

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Legacy API Documentation (Archived)

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 11

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

aio_oai_repo — Configurable OAI-PMH Repository Library (Python)

Tools

MCP Server (Community — Artwork Exploration And Analysis)

Tools

MCP Server (Community — Semantic Search, Provenance, Similarity, Spatial Reasoning)

Tools

MCP Client (Community — Web Client For MCP+ Server)

Tools

MCP Server (Community — OAI-PMH Harvesting)

Tools

MCP Server (Community — Iconclass Semantic Search)

Tools

MCP Server (Community — Multi-Museum Imagery, Includes Rijksmuseum)

Tools

PHP Client (Community)

SDKs

Python Client (Community)

SDKs

SimpleOAIHarvester — Reference Harvester Script

CodeExamples

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Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

Information And Data Policy

TermsOfService

Public Domain Mark For Most Object Images

License

CC-BY For Photography Of The Building And Modern Works

License

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Open Data Policy

Knowledge

Controlled Vocabularies (Actors, Places, Concepts, Events)

Discovery

SRU Bibliographic Catalogue

Discovery

Source (apis.yml)

aid: rijksmuseum
name: Rijksmuseum
description: Rijksmuseum is the Dutch national museum dedicated to Dutch arts and history, located in Amsterdam. Its RijksData
  open-data programme exposes more than 800,000 collection object metadata records, 600,000+ public-domain images, 320,000
  bibliographic records, 160,000 actor / institution records, and 70,000 controlled-vocabulary terms through a family of JSON-based
  REST APIs, an OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint, IIIF tile services, and linked-data dumps.
url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/assets/site/img/logo.png
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-05-29'
x-type: opensource
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-category: Art & Design
x-tier: 2
x-tier-reason: museum-open-data-with-api-key-and-rich-public-domain-content
x-governance: open-data
x-license-policy: cc0-or-public-domain-for-most-images
tags:
- Art And Design
- Museums
- Cultural Heritage
- Open Data
- Linked Data
- OAI-PMH
- IIIF
- Dutch Heritage
- Public APIs
apis:
- name: OAI-PMH Harvesting API
  description: Standards-based bulk harvesting endpoint implementing the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
    (OAI-PMH 2.0). Supports ListRecords, GetRecord, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, and ListIdentifiers verbs across the Dublin
    Core (dc), Europeana Data Model (edm_dc), and LIDO metadata formats. Use this — not the Collection Search API — to mirror
    more than 600,000 object records beyond the 10,000-object search ceiling.
  humanURL: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/harvest/
  baseURL: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Harvesting
  - Bulk Data
  - Dublin Core
  - Europeana
  - LIDO
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/harvest/
  - type: CodeExamples
    url: https://github.com/Q42/SimpleOAIHarvester
    title: SimpleOAIHarvester Reference Script
- aid: rijksmuseum:rijksmuseum-collection-api
  name: Rijksmuseum Collection API
  description: Search and browse the Rijksmuseum collection.
  humanURL: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/api/
  baseURL: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api
  tags:
  - Collection
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/rijksmuseum-collection-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-art-object-summary-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-art-object-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-image-tiles-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/user-generated-content/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-user-set-summary-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-user-set-schema.json
- aid: rijksmuseum:rijksmuseum-images-api
  name: Rijksmuseum Images API
  description: Deep-zoom tile pyramids for object web images.
  humanURL: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/api/
  baseURL: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api
  tags:
  - Image
  tags_raw:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/rijksmuseum-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-art-object-summary-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-art-object-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-image-tiles-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/user-generated-content/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-user-set-summary-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-user-set-schema.json
- aid: rijksmuseum:rijksmuseum-object-details-api
  name: Rijksmuseum Object Details API
  description: Retrieve the full record for a single object.
  humanURL: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/api/
  baseURL: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api
  tags:
  - Object Details
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/rijksmuseum-object-details-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-art-object-summary-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-art-object-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-image-tiles-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/user-generated-content/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-user-set-summary-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-user-set-schema.json
- aid: rijksmuseum:rijksmuseum-user-generated-content-api
  name: Rijksmuseum User Generated Content API
  description: Rijksstudio sets curated by Rijksmuseum's online community.
  humanURL: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/api/
  baseURL: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api
  tags:
  - User Generated Content
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/rijksmuseum-user-generated-content-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-art-object-summary-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-art-object-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-image-tiles-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/user-generated-content/api/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-user-set-summary-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/rijksmuseum-user-set-schema.json
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/rijksmuseum-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/rijksmuseum-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/rijksmuseum-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en
- type: Documentation
  url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://rijksmuseum.github.io/
  title: Legacy API Documentation (Archived)
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Rijksmuseum
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio
  title: Rijksstudio Account For API Key
- type: Authentication
  url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/api/#access-to-apis
- type: Plans
  url: plans/rijksmuseum-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/rijksmuseum-rate-limits.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/data/policy
  title: Information And Data Policy
- type: License
  url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
  title: Public Domain Mark For Most Object Images
- type: License
  url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  title: CC-BY For Photography Of The Building And Modern Works
- type: Knowledge
  url: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/data/policy
  title: Open Data Policy
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/rijksmuseum-vocabulary.yml
- type: Discovery
  url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/controlled-vocabularies/
  title: Controlled Vocabularies (Actors, Places, Concepts, Events)
- type: Discovery
  url: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/bibliographic-data/
  title: SRU Bibliographic Catalogue
- type: Integrations
  url: https://lido-schema.org/
  title: LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects)
- type: Integrations
  url: https://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation
  title: Europeana Data Model (EDM)
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/
  title: Dublin Core
- type: Integrations
  url: https://linked.art/
  title: Linked Art
- type: Integrations
  url: https://iiif.io/
  title: IIIF
- type: Tools
  url: https://github.com/Rijksmuseum/aio_oai_repo
  title: aio_oai_repo — Configurable OAI-PMH Repository Library (Python)
- type: Tools
  url: https://github.com/r-huijts/rijksmuseum-mcp
  title: MCP Server (Community — Artwork Exploration And Analysis)
- type: Tools
  url: https://github.com/kintopp/rijksmuseum-mcp-plus
  title: MCP Server (Community — Semantic Search, Provenance, Similarity, Spatial Reasoning)
- type: Tools
  url: https://github.com/kintopp/rijksmuseum-mcp-client
  title: MCP Client (Community — Web Client For MCP+ Server)
- type: Tools
  url: https://github.com/lwsinclair/rijksmuseum-mcp-oaipmh
  title: MCP Server (Community — OAI-PMH Harvesting)
- type: Tools
  url: https://github.com/kintopp/rijksmuseum-iconclass-mcp
  title: MCP Server (Community — Iconclass Semantic Search)
- type: Tools
  url: https://github.com/chandhoke/archival-imagery-mcp
  title: MCP Server (Community — Multi-Museum Imagery, Includes Rijksmuseum)
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/hay/rijksmuseumapi
  title: PHP Client (Community)
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/yutongquan/rijksmuseum_py
  title: Python Client (Community)
- type: CodeExamples
  url: https://github.com/Q42/SimpleOAIHarvester
  title: SimpleOAIHarvester — Reference Harvester Script
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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