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Art Institute of Chicago

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Search and browse the Art Institute of Chicago's collection of more than 130,000 works through its public API. Find artworks by subject, artist, place, period, medium or gallery; pull a full catalogue record with ready-to-use image links; look up an artist; see which exhibitions are on and what is happening at the museum this week; and check the opening hours. No account or API key is required.

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Search artworksSearch the museum's collection of more than 130,000 objects. Every filter is optional and they combine: narrow by kind of object, where it was made, its subject or style, when it was made and which room it hangs in, and keep only the works on view, the ones in the public domain, or the ones the museum has photographed. Returns full catalogue records with ready-to-use image links, the number of matches, and the offset for the next page. Leave the search words empty to browse by filters alone.

Get an artworkFetch one artwork's full catalogue record by its ID: title, artist, when and where it was made, medium and dimensions, credit line and accession number, the curator's description, its subjects and style, whether it is on view and in which gallery, its provenance and exhibition history, and ready-to-use links to its image.

Get artworks by IDFetch several artworks at once by their IDs, in one step instead of one per artwork. IDs the museum does not have are reported back under 'missing_artwork_ids' rather than failing the step, and the artworks come back in the order they were asked for.

Get artwork imagesList every picture the museum publishes for an artwork — the main photograph and any additional views — each as a direct URL a download step can use, at the size you pick, with its alt text, its pixel dimensions and the line to credit. Works the museum has released into the public domain can be reused freely; for anything else 'copyright_notice' says whose permission is needed. An artwork the museum has never photographed comes back with an empty list rather than an error.

Find artworks by artistList everything one artist made, by name — no ID lookup first. The name is resolved to the museum's own artist record and the collection is then filtered on that person, so 'Monet' returns his paintings rather than every work whose catalogue text mentions him. Whoever the name resolved to is reported back as 'artist_name', with any other artists of that name under 'other_matches'.

Search artistsFind the museum's record for an artist or maker by name, with their dates, the names they are also known by, and the museum's biography. The more of the name you type the narrower the result, and each record's 'artist_id' is what 'Get an artist' takes.

Get an artistFetch one artist's record by ID: their dates, the names they are also known by, the museum's biography, and their Getty ULAN and Wikidata identifiers for looking them up elsewhere.

Search exhibitionsFind exhibitions — what is on now by default, or what is opening later, or any of the six thousand shows the museum has staged since 1879. Each one comes back with its dates, its gallery, and the IDs of the works in it, which 'Get artworks by ID' takes directly.

Get an exhibitionFetch one exhibition by ID: its description, its opening and closing dates, whether it is on now, the gallery it occupies, and the IDs and titles of the works in it.

List eventsList what is on at the museum — talks, tours, workshops, screenings and member previews — soonest first, each with its time, its room, whether it is free and where to book. With no dates filled in this is everything from today onwards.

Get opening hoursThe museum's opening hours for every day of the week, as clock times, together with whether it is open today — the museum is closed on Tuesdays and stays open late on Thursdays. Member hours are reported separately from public hours.

List galleriesList the museum's rooms in floor-plan order, with their gallery number, their floor and whether they are currently closed. Search artworks offers the open rooms as a dropdown, so this is mainly for a workflow that walks the building room by room.

List audio toursList the museum's audio tours, each with its introduction and the works it stops at — including the verbal-description tours written for visitors who are blind or have low vision.

Search articlesSearch the stories the museum publishes about its collection — curators writing about single works, exhibitions and conservation — and get each one's full text as plain prose.

Look up subject and style termsFind the museum's own wording for a subject, style, material or technique. These are the words 'Search artworks' matches its 'Subject, style or material' filter against, so this is how to turn a rough idea into a term that actually narrows the collection.