Walters Art Museum Collections API

Documentation and static data files, for the Walters Art Museum collections API.

The API allows web developers and software programmers to query data from the museum, whose online repository contains more than 10,000 digital records of art and artifacts from the museum's collection. The records include information about the artworks as well as digital images. The museum created the API so developers and programmers can more easily create their own applications that feature the museum's data and images. The data and images are made available to the public under a CC0 license that facilitates reuse, even for commercial purposes.

note: v1 of the Walters API closed in 2023. Until a v2 can come online, we provide static data files via this repository.

The API describes:

• Objects within the museum collection art.csv
• Media, primarily images of the museum objects media.csv
• Relationships, describing artworks comprised of multiple museum objects relationships.csv
• Collections, or categories of museum objects collections.csv
• Geographic locations, where the museum objects came from
• Exhibitions created by the Walters, featuring the museum objects exhibitions.csv

See also:

• Online Collection
  get artwork info. with conservation and exhibition histories, and download images

• Digitized Walters Manuscripts
  download high-resolution archival images with detailed catalog data

• Walters Ex Libris
  search and browse digitized manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum

• Journal
  now available to all readers as an open-access digital publication