Met Museum MCP Server - install, status & alternatives [2026]

01 · Install Met Museum MCP Server

before you install - you'll need

Set MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE, MCP_LOG_LEVEL before connecting.

Claude Code

claude mcp add cyanheads-met-museum-mcp-server --transport http https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code - add to config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cyanheads-met-museum-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Same JSON for Cursor. For VS Code, rename the top-level key from `mcpServers` to `servers`.

Using another client? Same JSON, different key

Claude Desktop · mcpServers

Cursor · mcpServers

VS Code · servers

Windsurf · mcpServers

Zed · context_servers

Cline · mcpServers

Roo Code · mcpServers

Continue · mcpServers

LibreChat · mcpServers

Gemini CLI · mcpServers

Codex CLI · mcp_servers

Full setup guides: every client.

02 · Evidence

https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp

transport: streamable-http

endpoint alive - responded to MCP initialize · probed 2026-08-25

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

runs as local process (stdio) - runs on your machine with your user's permissions · remote - your agent's requests go to met-museum.caseyjhand.com

endpoint auth accepted our unauthenticated MCP initialize - no credentials needed to connect

license Apache-2.0 - declared in the repository

npm package @cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server - published under the repo owner's npm scope (@cyanheads)

registry namespace io.github.cyanheads is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

03 · What Met Museum MCP Server can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

What you can build

With this server connected, an agent can read all 19 curatorial departments with their numeric IDs and display names, and fetch full records for one or more object IDs - metadata, provenance, artist info, CC0 image URLs, tags, and Wikidata links.

Capability map

Tools grouped from the project's README - what Met Museum MCP Server lets an agent do.

Met

3 tools - e.g. Return all 19 curatorial departments with their numeric IDs and display names; Search the collection by keyword with filters for department, date range, medium, geography, on-view status, public-domain…

met_list_departments · met_search_collections · met_get_object

Partial

1 tool - e.g. a single 404 does not fail the whole batch; failed IDs are reported per-ID

Partial-success

Latest releases

v0.2.6 · 2026-08-22

MCP SDK v2 maintenance · MCP 2026-07-28 support joins 2025-era clients with Draft 2020-12 schemas, strict root inputs, and declared structured error envelopes. · HTTP deployment is explicitly stateless; Met API fetches…

v0.2.5 · 2026-07-17

content[] field completeness and tightened tool descriptions · Every met_get_object and met_search_collections output field now renders in content[]; all three tools moved to descriptive voice. · Changed: · Tool and…

v0.2.4 · 2026-07-17

met_search_collections pagination, validation, and fail-fast timeout · Offset paging and departmentId validation land alongside two bug fixes for the same tool. · Added: · offset pagination - nextOffset/remaining…

04 · Who maintains Met Museum MCP Server

met-museum-mcp-server is maintained by cyanheads. We track 125 MCP servers from cyanheads - 124 actively maintained, 1,730 combined GitHub stars, oldest repo from Dec 2024. Full record: all servers from cyanheads.

05 · Facts

repository: github.com/cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server
category: media - ranked #70 of 155 actively-maintained media servers as of 2026-08-25.
release cadence: 10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-08-22)
registry: io.github.cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server (active, first published 2026-06-01 · 10 versions)
packages: npm:@cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server · npm:@cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server

06 · Met Museum MCP Server FAQ

Is Met Museum MCP Server still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-08-25, its last commit was 2026-08-22 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

What can Met Museum MCP Server do?

With this server connected, an agent can read all 19 curatorial departments with their numeric IDs and display names, and fetch full records for one or more object IDs - metadata, provenance, artist info, CC0 image URLs, tags, and Wikidata links.

How do I install Met Museum MCP Server?

Run `npx -y @cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server`. The README documents 2 environment variables (MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE, MCP_LOG_LEVEL) to set first. Set MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE, MCP_LOG_LEVEL before connecting. You can also paste the ready-made client config above.

Does Met Museum MCP Server require authentication?

No - the endpoint accepted our unauthenticated MCP initialize when probed on 2026-08-25; you can connect without credentials.

07 · Alternatives to Met Museum MCP Server

Alternatives to Met Museum MCP Server

Maintained media servers if Met Museum MCP Server isn't the fit.

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