# Rijksmuseum

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/rijksmuseum/  
**Website:** https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 36.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 29.6 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 38.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 41.8 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Rijksmuseum Agentic Access** — 5 operations

## Security (2)

- **Rijksmuseum Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Rijksmuseum Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Rijksmuseum Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Art And Design, Museums, Cultural Heritage, Open Data, Linked Data, OAI-PMH, IIIF, Dutch Heritage, Public APIs

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