Skills pipeworx-art

Search and explore 500,000+ artworks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's open-access collection

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/brucegutman/pipeworx-art" ~/.claude/skills/clawdbot-skills-pipeworx-art && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/brucegutman/pipeworx-art/SKILL.md

source content

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met's collection spans 5,000 years of art from every corner of the world. This pack connects to their open-access API, giving you structured data on paintings, sculptures, textiles, photographs, and more — complete with high-resolution image URLs, provenance, and exhibition history.

Available tools

search_artworks
— Full-text search across the collection. Returns the first 5 matching objects with details like artist, date, medium, and image URL.
get_artwork
— Deep dive into a single object by its Met Museum ID. Returns everything: dimensions, credit line, gallery location, provenance, classification, and more.
get_departments
— Lists all curatorial departments (e.g., Egyptian Art, European Paintings, Asian Art).

Scenarios where this fits

A user asks "show me Impressionist paintings at the Met" — use
```
search_artworks
```
with query
```
"impressionism"
```
Generating educational content about ancient Egyptian artifacts
Building an art recommendation feature and need structured metadata
Comparing works across departments or time periods

Example: finding Van Gogh works

curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/art/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_artworks","arguments":{"query":"van gogh sunflowers"}}}'

You'll get back objects including titles, dates, artist nationality, medium, and direct links to high-res images on the Met's CDN.

Output shape

Each artwork includes:

```
title
```
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artist
```
,
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date
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,
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medium
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department
```
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culture
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period
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image_url
```
(public domain where available)
```
object_url
```
(link to the Met's website)

Setup

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-art": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/art/mcp"]
    }
  }
}