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World's largest museum, education, and research complex with 19 museums, 21 libraries, 9 research centers, and 154+ million collection objects in Washington DC and New York, freely accessible to the public.

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GET/api/v1.0/search

Search Smithsonian open access collections

Parameters

qobjectrequired— artist, or topic (string

rowsintegeroptional

typeedanmdm|dams:Image|ead_component (stringoptional

unit_codeNMAAHC|NMNH|NASM (stringoptional

Returns

rows[] with id, title, unitCode, objectType, content{descriptiveNonRepeating, indexedStructured}

GET/api/v1.0/content/{id}

Get Smithsonian collection object details

Parameters

idSmithsonian object ID (stringrequired

Returns

content with title, unitCode, objectType, descriptiveNonRepeating{online_media{media[{content, thumbnail, type}]}, data_source}, indexedStructured{date[], place[], topic[], name[]}

GET/api/v1.0/search

Search freely downloadable Smithsonian media

Parameters

qstringrequired

media_usageCC0 (stringoptional

Returns

rows[] with id, title, online_media{media[{content, thumbnail, iiif_url}]}, unitCode