The Art Institute of Chicago's API allows developers to explore and integrate the museum’s public data into their projects. This API is the same tool that powers the website, the mobile app, and many other technologies in the museum.
Build a gallery browser, artwork search app, or a classroom visual aid using real museum data — all without signing up. You can fetch artwork and artist records, perform full-text searches, and construct IIIF image URLs to display high-quality images. If you need a complete dataset, download the nightly JSON dumps on GitHub and work locally. Note: anonymous users are limited to 60 requests per minute and pagination prevents returning more than 10,000 results for a single search.
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