# met-museum-mcp-server MCP Server

MET Museum collection via MCP — 500K+ artworks, metadata, provenance, open-access images.

**Pod connected.** On 2026-09-05 the server did not respond usably (unreachable).

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server)

**GitHub popularity:** 4 stars on [cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server](cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server), recorded 2026-09-10.

## Status

Pod connected to met-museum-mcp-server on 2026-09-05. It did not answer, responding in 10318ms.

## Connect

Published as `@cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "met-museum-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Published as `@cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "met-museum-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

A hosted endpoint at `https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "met-museum-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://met-museum.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**10 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

### Most discussed

### bug(met_search_collections): search filters return objects that do not match the query

### Server version

0.5.0

### mcp-ts-core version

0.12.8

### Runtime

Bun

### Runtime version

Bun 1.4.0

### Transport

HTTP (Streamable HTTP)

### Description

Adding any filter to `met_search_collections` makes the upstream Met Search index return a fixed set of objects that do not match `q`. The filtered result set is the union of the genuine keyword matches and that query-independent floor, not a subset of the same search run unfiltered. A query that matches nothing still comes back as…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server/issues/21) · 2026-09-09 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### bug(met_search_collections): reject blank search inputs

### Server version

0.2.6

### mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

### Runtime

Bun

### Runtime version

Bun 1.3.14

### Transport

HTTP (Streamable HTTP)

### Description

`met_search_collections` accepts several blank optional-filter shapes without rejecting them, and forwards a whitespace-only `q` straight to the upstream API instead of failing input validation. Two of the four cases are silently dropped and quietly widen the search to an unfiltered query; one is silently accepted and forwarded…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/met-museum-mcp-server/issues/13) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 1 comment

[See all 10 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/met-museum-mcp-server/issues).

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- [Metmuseum](/mcp/metmuseum) — Same product family, different deployment

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