`rijks_search`

Pack: rijksmuseum · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/rijksmuseum/mcp

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/rijks_search for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

Search the Rijksmuseum’s ~800,000-object collection — Dutch Golden Age paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, Delftware, Asian art — by title, maker, object type, material, technique or object number, and get back real records: title, maker, date, materials, curatorial description, rights and a IIIF image URL. AUTHORITATIVE for what the Dutch national museum holds and how it catalogues it. Keyless. There is no free-text q: filters are field-scoped, and titles are catalogued in Dutch. Example: rijks_search({ creator: “Rembrandt”, type: “painting”, limit: 5 }).

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`title`	string	no	Words in the object title, as catalogued (Dutch), e.g. “Nachtwacht”.
`creator`	string	no	Maker name, e.g. “Rembrandt van Rijn” or “Vermeer”.
`type`	string	no	Object type, e.g. “painting”, “print”, “drawing”, “photograph”.
`material`	string	no	Material, e.g. “canvas”, “paper”, “oil paint”.
`technique`	string	no	Technique, e.g. “etching”, “engraving”.
`objectNumber`	string	no	Exact museum object number, e.g. “SK-C-5”.
`imageAvailable`	boolean	no	Only objects that have a published image.
`limit`	number	no	How many hits to hydrate into full records, 1-25. Default 10. Each costs one upstream fetch.
`page_token`	string	no	next_page_token from a previous call, to continue through the result set.

Example call

Arguments

{
  "creator": "Rembrandt van Rijn",
  "type": "painting",
  "limit": 3
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/rijksmuseum/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"rijks_search","arguments":{"creator":"Rembrandt van Rijn","type":"painting","limit":3}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('rijks_search', {
  "creator": "Rembrandt van Rijn",
  "type": "painting",
  "limit": 3
});

More examples

{
  "title": "Nachtwacht",
  "limit": 5
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rijksmuseum": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/rijksmuseum/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

rijks_search