# Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

> Use this tool when you need to access and analyze the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam's vast art collection, enabling use cases such as virtual museum tours, art analysis, and personalized collection curation. It provides a bridge to the Rijksmuseum API, offering artwork search, detailed information retrieval, and high-resolution image access. With a simple interface, it allows AI systems to easily explore and interact with art historical data for applications in art research, education, and cultural exploration.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/r-huijts-rijksmuseum  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/r-huijts-rijksmuseum

## Description

This Rijksmuseum Amsterdam MCP server, developed by R.Huijts, provides a bridge to the Rijksmuseum API, enabling AI assistants to explore and interact with the museum's vast art collection. Built with TypeScript and leveraging the Model Context Protocol SDK, it offers tools for artwork search, detailed information retrieval, high-resolution image access, and user collection exploration. The server implements error handling and environment configuration, using dotenv for API key management. By abstracting the complexities of the Rijksmuseum API, it allows AI systems to easily access and analyze art historical data. This implementation is particularly valuable for applications in art research, education, and cultural exploration, facilitating use cases such as virtual museum tours, art analysis, and personalized collection curation.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.94
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** media
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/r-huijts-rijksmuseum)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/r-huijts/rijksmuseum-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "r-huijts-rijksmuseum"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/r-huijts-rijksmuseum` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/r-huijts-rijksmuseum/pull`

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