search_objects
Pack: va-museum · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/va-museum/mcp
Search the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) — the world’s leading art & design museum. Find objects across 1M+ items (furniture, fashion, ceramics, photographs, paintings, jewellery, sculpture) by keyword. Returns id, title, maker, date, place, type, and thumbnail. Use the returned id with get_object for full details. Keyless.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
query | string | yes | Free-text keyword search (e.g. “Jasper Morrison chair”, “Tudor portrait”, “Japanese ceramics”). |
limit | number | no | Max results to return (default 15, max 100). |
page | number | no | Page number, 1-based (default 1). |
with_images | boolean | no | If true, only return objects that have images (default false). |
Example call
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/va-museum/mcp \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_objects","arguments":{}}}'Connect
Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:
{
"mcpServers": {
"va-museum": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/va-museum/mcp"
}
}
}See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.