Cleveland Museum of Art

• Search artworksSearch the museum's 68,000 catalogued works by subject, artist, department, materials, date and much else. Every result carries its caption, its credit line, whether it is hanging today and, for the 41,000 works the museum has photographed, links to the picture at three sizes. About three works in five are public domain, so their pictures can be used anywhere without asking.
• Get an artworkFetch one work in full: the museum's commentary on it, who has owned it since it was made, what is inscribed on it, what has been written about it, every exhibition it has travelled to, and its pictures at web, print and archival resolution. Takes the accession number printed on the wall label, or the id any search here returns.
• Get a random artworkPick one work at random out of everything matching the filters, in full, for a piece of the collection a day. Narrow it to a department or a kind of object to keep a daily post on a theme. It draws from the whole of the collection rather than from the first page of it, so running it every morning gives a different work every morning.
• Search artistsFind the artists and makers behind the collection by name, nationality, lifetime, or a word in the biography the museum has written for them. Use it to settle who the museum holds before going looking for their work, and to get the id 'Get an artist' takes.
• Get an artistFetch one artist with the biography the museum has written for them and every work of theirs it holds, each with its caption and its accession number. That number goes straight into 'Get an artwork' for the full record and the pictures.
• Search exhibitionsSearch the 5,700 exhibitions the museum has staged or lent to since 1879, by title, by who organized them, by where they travelled, and by when they ran. Set 'When' to what is on now for a visit, or give a date range to look at a particular period.
• Get an exhibitionFetch one exhibition with its dates, everywhere it travelled and the checklist of works the museum lent or showed, each with its accession number. Use it to turn an exhibition into a reading list, or to follow a work's history back through the shows it has been in.
• Check the connectionCheck the museum's Open Access API is answering and report how much is in it: how many works are catalogued, how many have been photographed, how many are hanging in the galleries today, and how many artists and exhibitions there are. Worth putting at the front of a workflow that will act on a count, and a quick way to see the connection is working.

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