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Free art encyclopedia: 640,000 artworks, 52,000 artists, 5,400 museums, movements, biographies.
Remote server: your requests and data go to direct.wikioo.org. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http wikioo-art-encyclopedia https://direct.wikioo.org/mcp/ · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_artworks — Keyword search of ONE model, the artworks: words of the title, the artist name and the description. Use it when you are looking for a work (search_museums — Keyword search of ONE model, the museums, by name, with two filters no other search tool has: city and country. Use it when you are looking search_artists — Keyword search of ONE model, the artists, by name and biography, with three filters no other search tool has: birth city, birth country and search_articles — Keyword search of ONE model, the articles of the website, with a category filter no other keyword search has. Use it to LIST the articles onsearch_sections_semantically — Search by MEANING that returns TEXT PASSAGES, not objects: the sections of our texts that answer a question best, whatever words they use, esearch_objects_semantically — Search by MEANING that returns OBJECTS, not passages: the artworks, artists, museums or articles whose texts are closest in meaning to a texsearch_fts — Keyword search of the FOUR models in one call: artworks, artists, museums and articles (maximum 10 results per model, merged by relevance; eget_detail_artwork — Full data of ONE artwork identified by pk (use a search tool first to find the pk). Always returns: pk, title, meta_description, meta_keyworget_detail_artist — Full data of ONE artist identified by pk (use a search tool first to find the pk). Always returns: pk, title, meta_description, meta_keywordget_detail_museum — Full data of ONE museum identified by pk (use a search tool first to find the pk). Always returns: pk, title, meta_description, meta_keywordget_detail_article — Full data of ONE article identified by pk (use a search tool first to find the pk). Always returns: pk, title, meta_description, meta_keyworget_quotation — Price quotation for a reproduction of an artwork, as an art print or a hand-painted oil painting, at a given size and in a given currency. Lget_custom_reproduction_quotation — Price quotation for a CUSTOM reproduction — one made from an image the customer supplies (their own photo, or an artwork that is not in the get_artwork_availability — Every way to buy ONE artwork right now, on every sales channel it sells: the physical objects first — a ready-made oil painting in stock ("Sfind_artwork_in_catalog — ONE call that says whether a work is in our catalog, for a visitor who cannot name it exactly: a half-remembered or translated title, an artNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.