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The Met collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 490,000+ objects, most with public-domain images.

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About this source

Keyword search with department, date and image filters, returning artist, date, medium, culture and links for the top matches. Public-domain works include a direct image URL.

Questions you can ask The Met collection

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Search the collection for records about a named person, place or event and list the reference codes.

What comes back: Matching records with identifiers and links to the originals.

What the assistant can do with it

The 1 tool this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • met_search

    Search the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection (490k+ objects, many public domain).

Good to know

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  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
  • Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to The Met collection.

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