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io.github.cyanheads/smithsonian-mcp-server

io.github.cyanheads/smithsonian-mcp-server · v0.3.8

Search 14.5M Smithsonian Open Access objects, get CC0 images, find cross-collection connections.

MCPremotelocal · npmno credentialsImages, video & audio

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Last check

Reachable, 6 tools, protocol 2025-06-18 · checked 2026-10-17

Test & rating

B 88/100

What it does: 6 tools · 6 read, 0 write · Images, video & audio, Developer tools

No tool could be tested safely. Only read-only tools that need no input are called.

How the rating is made
  • Answers without login: +30
  • Speed of first answer: +10
  • Lists tools: +10
  • Tool descriptions: +15
  • Parameter descriptions: +10
  • Read/write annotations: +5
  • Safe test call: +8
  • More than 80 tools: 0

Tested 2026-10-17. Fixed rules, no AI model. Grade A needs a successful real call.

Install

Remote URL
https://smithsonian.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Package
registry:   npm
identifier: @cyanheads/smithsonian-mcp-server
version:    0.3.8
transport:  stdio

Tools

6 tools listed at last check
  • smithsonian_search_objects Recommended first step for open-ended or topic discovery: free-text search across 14.5 million Smithsonian objects, with optional exact filters. Filters narrow by museum unit, object type, indexed date term, culture, geographic place, subject topic, named party, and online/CC0 availability. Returns
  • smithsonian_list_terms Enumerate the valid term vocabulary for an indexed Smithsonian filter field (unit_code, culture, place, date, online_media_type, topic). Terms are a controlled vocabulary — often plural or qualified (e.g. "Paintings", not "Painting") — so guessed filter values tend to return nothing. Returns a page
  • smithsonian_get_object Fetch a normalized catalog metadata projection for a Smithsonian object by its record_id (from smithsonian_search_objects results). Returns the exposed catalog fields — title, dates, description, makers, materials, dimensions, places, cultures, topics, exhibitions, credit line, identifiers, rights,
  • smithsonian_get_media Return every CC0 (open-access) image for a Smithsonian object at multiple resolutions. The tool never returns an empty list — it names the reason instead: an object with nothing digitized, an object whose media is entirely non-image (scanned books, 3D models, sound recordings), and an object whose i
  • smithsonian_browse_category Browse Smithsonian objects within one exact category — a single museum (mode "museum"), culture, indexed date term (mode "period"), object type (mode "medium"), or subject term (mode "topic"). The value must be an exact indexed category term, not free text: resolve museum, culture, period, and topic
  • smithsonian_find_related Discover objects across Smithsonian collections related to a given anchor object, matched on shared metadata signals — culture, period, object type, named parties, and topic terms. Each related object is tagged with the signals that connected it to the anchor; a named-party signal carries the catalo

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