Rijksmuseum MCP+

What it does

Rijksmuseum MCP+ renders an interactive deep-zoom image viewer inline in your chat, letting you pan, zoom, rotate, and annotate artworks from the Rijksmuseum's collection of 832K objects. The AI assistant can visually inspect regions of interest, highlight details, and combine what it sees with enriched metadata — all within the conversation.

Key features

• Interactive image viewer — Deep-zoom, pan, rotate, and draw regions of interest that automatically direct the AI's attention to specific areas of an artwork
• Semantic search — Multilingual concept-based search across titles, descriptions, and inscriptions (e.g. "a sense of loneliness in domestic interiors")
• Provenance analysis — Structured search across 100K+ parsed ownership events: trace collectors, identify confiscated works, compare historical auction prices
• Find similar artworks — Cross-dimensional similarity comparison across visual appearance, subject classification, artistic lineage, depicted persons, and places
• Extended metadata — 194K vocabulary terms, geocoded location proximity search, Iconclass notation browsing, dimension filters, and aggregate collection statistics

Installation

Recommended — Claude Desktop / claude.ai (hosted):

Go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste:

https://rijksmuseum-mcp-plus-production.up.railway.app/mcp

Claude Desktop (local stdio):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rijksmuseum-mcp-plus": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "rijksmuseum-mcp-plus"],
      "env": {
        RIJKSMUSEUM_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Mistral LeChat: Configure as a custom connector using the hosted URL above.

Supported hosts

• Claude Desktop
• claude.ai
• Mistral LeChat (basic MCP support, no image viewer)