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Cleveland Museum of Art API

Open-access artworks, creators and exhibitions.
Status
Working
API key
Not needed
Browser calls
Server only
Latency
836 ms
Docs
openaccess-api.clevelandart.org ↗

Build snapshot, not live. One verifier run on , from the machine that built this site. How we check

Example request

GEThttps://openaccess-api.clevelandart.org/api/artworks/?limit=1

Copy the request

Shell
curl -s 'https://openaccess-api.clevelandart.org/api/artworks/?limit=1'

Response stored by the verifier

This is what openaccess-api.clevelandart.org answered when the verifier sent the request above on : HTTP 200, application/json. Arrays are cut to two items and long strings are shortened. It comes from the build snapshot.

application/json · stored
{
  "info": {
    "total": 68781,
    "parameters": {
      "skip": 0,
      "limit": 1,
      "select": "accession_number,accession_number_sortable,cover_accession_number,department,collection,classification_type,departmen..."
    }
  },
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 94979,
      "accession_number": "1915.534",
      "share_license_status": "CC0",
      "tombstone": "Nathaniel Hurd, c. 1765. John Singleton Copley (American, born The Thirteen Colonies, 1738–1815). Oil on canvas; fram...",
      "current_location": "204 Colonial American",
      "title": "Nathaniel Hurd",
      "creation_date": "c. 1765",
      "creation_date_earliest": 1760,
      "creation_date_latest": 1770,
      "artists_tags": [
        "male"
      ],
      "culture": [
        "America"
      ],
      "technique": "oil on canvas",
      "support_materials": [],
      "department": "American Painting and Sculpture"
    }
  ]
}

Availability

Up 1 of 1 day checked · 30-day window

What counts as up for this API: an answer within five seconds, a 2xx status, and the JSON body must contain the field "data".

Last check: — passed, HTTP 200 in 836 ms.

The check runs from our infrastructure, not from where you are. If you need certainty, send the request yourself above. How the verifier works.

Questions

Does the Cleveland Museum of Art API need an API key?

No. The sample request on this page was answered without a key, token or account.

Can I call the Cleveland Museum of Art API from the browser?

Not directly. openaccess-api.clevelandart.org did not send an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to our verifier on Oct 3, 2026, so browsers block the response. Call it from a server or a serverless function.

Is the Cleveland Museum of Art API working?

At the check on Oct 3, 2026 it returned HTTP 200 with the expected data in 836 ms. The status at the top of this page shows the most recent result we have.