PASAR API

🌐 The Met Collection ~ 470k+ open-access artworks

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The Met's open-access collection API: search 470k+ artworks and fetch high-resolution public-domain images with artist, period and medium metadata. Keyless JSON. Global, works for MY.

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Call it

curl 'https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/objects/436535'

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API: The Met Collection ~ 470k+ open-access artworks
Provider: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Endpoint: GET https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/objects/436535
It returns JSON.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (https://metmuseum.github.io/)
Source type: Curated source
Endpoint type: Provider API base URL
Integration difficulty: Copy-paste ready
Last checked: 2026-07-03
Production caveat: Still handle empty rows, schema changes, pagination, stale coverage, and temporary upstream failures.

Help me fetch this and build a simple page that displays it nicely. Include basic production safeguards for errors, empty responses, schema changes, caching, and rate limits.

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