Collections: API

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    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
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    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
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    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
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    Luce Center for American Art

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

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    Exploring the collection

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    The Brooklyn Museum Collections API offers one simple REST request format based on the following URI.

    http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/api/

    Arguments

    In addition to method-specific arguments, all API requests listed on the API index page take the following arguments:

    method (Required)
    Specifies what method to perform.
    api_key (Required)
    Your personal API Key.
    version (Required)
    The API version you want to use. Integer. Valid values: 1.

    Method-specific parameters are documented on the method detail pages, which are listed on the API index page.

    Example

    The following request returns all items that match keyword "Eames":

    http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/api/
    ?method=collection.search&version=1&api_key=[YOUR API KEY]&keyword=eames

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