Artic Edu Art Institute of Chicago API
The Art Institute of Chicago API is a public, read-only aggregator over the museum's collections data. It exposes 97 endpoints across artworks, artists, agents, places, galleries, exhibitions, sites, events, articles, tours, mobile sounds, publications, sections, products, images, videos, and sounds. Each primary entity supports list and detail operations, and 28 of the 34 resource groups also expose a /search operation, including artworks, agents, places, galleries, exhibitions, events, and articles. Artists are listed and fetched by id only; artist search runs through /agents/search, since the spec files the artist operations under its agents tag. The API is unauthenticated, intended for educational and research use, and serves as an open data layer for museum integrations. This entry is built from a third-party copy of the museum's OpenAPI document, pinned at version 1.10 and generated in August 2024; the museum publishes its own OpenAPI file at api.artic.edu/api/v1/openapi.json, which is the canonical description and lists 103 operations as of its version 1.14.
