Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago publishes an open, REST + Elasticsearch-style Public API for ~120,000 artworks plus agents (artists/makers), places, galleries, exhibitions, tours, mobile sounds, museum-shop products, publications, sections, sites, educator resources, digital and printed publications, and static archive images. Most data is CC0 1.0; descriptions and place data are CC-BY 4.0. No API key required; anonymous limit is 60 requests/minute per IP. Clients should send an AIC-User-Agent header for courtesy tracking. The canonical aggregator (Laravel) is open source on GitHub, and nightly bulk data dumps are published in a sibling repo.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Art Institute of Chicago the way a machine reads it — 107 machine-readable artifacts across 39 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Art Institute of Chicago scores 32.3/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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How we profile Art Institute of Chicago
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Art Institute of Chicago. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 39
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
IIIF Image API
IIIF Image API 2.0-compliant service for delivering image binaries for artworks. Combine artwork.image_id with config.iiif_url returned by the Public API.
Bulk Data Dumps
Nightly data dumps of the collection and related resources, published as JSON in a public GitHub repository. Recommended for bulk consumers instead of scraping the API.
Art Institute of Chicago Agent Roles API
Roles agents can play in relation to an artwork.
Art Institute of Chicago Agent Types API
Classifications of agents (Individual, Corporate, etc.).
Art Institute of Chicago Agents API
People and organizations (artists, makers, donors) associated with artworks.
Art Institute of Chicago Articles API
Magazine-style articles published by the museum.
Art Institute of Chicago Artists API
Convenience alias for agents flagged as artists.
Art Institute of Chicago Artwork Date Qualifiers API
Date qualifier terms used on artworks.
Art Institute of Chicago Artwork Place Qualifiers API
Place qualifier terms used on artworks.
Art Institute of Chicago Artwork Types API
Classification of artwork types (Painting, Sculpture, etc.).
Art Institute of Chicago Artworks API
Artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago collection (~120,000 records).
Art Institute of Chicago Category Terms API
Subject, department and style category terms.
Art Institute of Chicago Digital Publication Articles API
Articles inside digital publications.
Art Institute of Chicago Digital Publications API
Online scholarly publications and catalogues.
Art Institute of Chicago Educator Resources API
Lesson plans and resources for educators.
Art Institute of Chicago Event Occurrences API
Scheduled occurrences of an event.
Art Institute of Chicago Event Programs API
Recurring program series the events belong to.
Art Institute of Chicago Events API
Public events at the museum.
Art Institute of Chicago Exhibitions API
Past, current and upcoming exhibitions.
Art Institute of Chicago Galleries API
Galleries inside the Art Institute of Chicago museum.
Art Institute of Chicago Generic Pages API
Generic landing-style pages.
Art Institute of Chicago Highlights API
Curated highlight items from the collection.
Art Institute of Chicago Hours API
Museum opening hours.
Art Institute of Chicago Images API
Image assets (delivered via IIIF for binary data).
Art Institute of Chicago Landing Pages API
Top-level landing pages of artic.edu.
Art Institute of Chicago Mobile Sounds API
Audio tour stops and mobile-app sound content.
Art Institute of Chicago Places API
Geographic places linked to artworks (uses Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names).
Art Institute of Chicago Press Releases API
Official press releases from the museum.
Art Institute of Chicago Printed Publications API
Print catalogues and books.
Art Institute of Chicago Products API
Items for sale in the museum shop.
Art Institute of Chicago Publications API
All museum publications (combined index).
Art Institute of Chicago Search API
Cross-resource Elasticsearch-style search.
Art Institute of Chicago Sections API
Sections of online publications and catalogues.
Art Institute of Chicago Sites API
Microsites and online sites published by the museum.
Art Institute of Chicago Sounds API
Sound assets and metadata.
Art Institute of Chicago Static Pages API
Static content pages of artic.edu.
Art Institute of Chicago Texts API
Long-form text content.
Art Institute of Chicago Tours API
Curated multi-stop museum tours.
Art Institute of Chicago Videos API
Video assets and metadata.
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Open Collections 39
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Agent Types API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Agents API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Articles API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Artists API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Artworks API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Events API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Exhibitions API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Galleries API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Highlights API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Hours API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Images API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Places API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Products API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Publications API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Sections API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Sites API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Sounds API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Static Pages API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Texts API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Tours API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public Agent Roles Videos API
OPEN COLLECTIONArt Institute of Chicago Public API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Art Institute Of Chicago Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Art Institute of Chicago API Rules
SPECTRALArt Institute of Chicago API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 7
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Agent
JSON SCHEMAArtwork
JSON SCHEMAExhibition
JSON SCHEMAGallery
JSON SCHEMAPlace
JSON SCHEMAProduct
JSON SCHEMATour
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JSON Structure 7
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Art Institute Of Chicago Agent Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArt Institute Of Chicago Artwork Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArt Institute Of Chicago Exhibition Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArt Institute Of Chicago Gallery Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArt Institute Of Chicago Place Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArt Institute Of Chicago Product Structure
JSON STRUCTUREArt Institute Of Chicago Tour Structure
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Examples 8
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Art Institute of Chicago — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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