Registry API v1

Museums

Read-only museum profiles and their public collections. Many museum works enter Collect24 through open-access programmes; the endpoints behave identically to galleries.

Endpoints

Method	Path	Scope
GET	`/api/v1/museums/{id}`	`museums:read`
GET	`/api/v1/museums/{id}/artworks`	`artworks:read`

{id} accepts the museum slug or uuid. Unknown or non-public profiles return 404 museum_not_found.

Museum object

Field	Type	Notes
`object`	string	Always `"museum"`.
`id`	uuid
`slug`	string
`name`	string
`type`	string	Collection type as registered.
`description`	string \| null	Public institutional description.
`city`	string \| null
`country`	string \| null
`website`	string \| null
`is_verified`	boolean
`artwork_count`	number	Public works currently in the projection.
`links`	object	self, artworks and public_page.

Read a museum

GET /api/v1/museums/{id}

curl https://collect24.art/api/v1/museums/kmska \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer c24_live_..."

200 response

{
  "object": "museum",
  "id": "3b1f6c92-1f0e-4a11-8c47-51d0e0a99b2f",
  "slug": "kmska",
  "name": "Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp",
  "type": "museum",
  "description": "The KMSKA holds one of the most important collections of Flemish art…",
  "city": "Antwerp",
  "country": "BE",
  "website": "https://kmska.be",
  "is_verified": true,
  "artwork_count": 1274,
  "links": {
    "self": "/api/v1/museums/kmska",
    "artworks": "/api/v1/museums/kmska/artworks",
    "public_page": "https://collect24.art/collections/kmska"
  }
}

A museum's collection

Same list envelope and artwork objects as GET /api/v1/artworks, restricted to that museum. Supports q, medium, year, limit (max 100), offset and updated_since.

GET /api/v1/museums/{id}/artworks

curl "https://collect24.art/api/v1/museums/kmska/artworks?updated_since=2026-08-01T00:00:00Z&limit=100" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer c24_live_..."

Source data and rights

Open-access records keep their source attribution and licence conditions. Reading them through Collect24 does not extend or replace those conditions: check the licence of the originating institution before republishing images or metadata.