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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Access over 470,000 artworks with metadata and high-resolution images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection. Search by title, tags, department, and more. No API key required.

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Verified 4 days ago: 100% uptime

API key

Not required

HTTPS

Supported

Browser calls

Yes, CORS enabled

Status

Live · 98/100

What our checks found

Health score
98/100
Reliability
100%
Average latency
563ms

Last checked 2026-09-18. Measured independently, not self-reported by the provider.

How to call it

A starting template for Metropolitan Museum of Art. Replace ENDPOINT with the path from the official documentation, which we link above rather than guess at.

# No authentication required.
curl -s "https://metmuseum.github.io/ENDPOINT" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

Where this listing comes from

Aggregated from 3 public sources (freepublicapis, public-api-lists, public-apis), then normalised and checked by us. If something here is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art — common questions

Answered from what our own scheduled checks found, not from the provider's marketing.

Is Metropolitan Museum of Art free to use?

Metropolitan Museum of Art is listed in our free catalogue and required no credential when we called it. It needs no authentication at all, so you can send a request without signing up. Free tiers can still carry rate limits or non-commercial terms, so check the provider's own terms before shipping.

Does Metropolitan Museum of Art need an API key?

No. We called Metropolitan Museum of Art on 2026-09-18 with no key, no token and no Authorization header, and it responded. That is what puts it in our no-key collection.

Can I call Metropolitan Museum of Art from browser JavaScript?

Yes. Metropolitan Museum of Art returned CORS headers when we checked it, so a browser will let your page read the response. You can fetch it directly from client-side JavaScript with no proxy and no backend.

Is Metropolitan Museum of Art still working?

Yes, as of 2026-09-18. Our automated check reached Metropolitan Museum of Art and recorded a 100% reliability score with a median response time of 563 ms. We re-check on a schedule, and this page updates with the result.

Is Metropolitan Museum of Art available over HTTPS?

Yes. Metropolitan Museum of Art serves over HTTPS, so you can call it from a secure page without triggering a mixed-content block.