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type: software
title: "rijksmuseum-mcp+"
abstract: >
  An MCP server providing AI-mediated access to the Rijksmuseum collection
  via its Linked Open Data APIs, supporting search, iconographic exploration,
  high-resolution image viewing, provenance analysis, and similarity comparison.
authors:
  - family-names: Bosse
    given-names: Arno
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-1289"
    affiliation: "Research and Infrastructure Support (RISE), University of Basel"
repository-code: "https://github.com/kintopp/rijksmuseum-mcp-plus"
url: "https://rijksmuseum-mcp-plus-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
license: MIT
version: "0.60"
date-released: "2026-06-09"
keywords:
  - digital humanities
  - museum collections
  - linked open data
  - model context protocol
  - Rijksmuseum
  - art history
references:
  - type: software
    title: "Claude Code"
    authors:
      - name: "Anthropic"
    url: "https://www.anthropic.com"
    notes: "AI coding assistant used in the development of this software"
  - type: database
    title: "Rijksmuseum Collection — Linked Open Data APIs"
    authors:
      - name: "Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"
    url: "https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/"
    license: "CC0-1.0 and CC-BY-4.0"
    notes: "Collection data and images accessed via the Rijksmuseum Linked Open Data APIs. Licensing varies by object; see https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/policy/information-and-data-policy"
