Collections: API: Rights

The Brooklyn Museum has an obligation to ensure that digital representations of our pieces are properly attributed. Any time you display one of our images you must simultaneously present at least minimum attribution. The required attribution varies by item type.

Objects

When displaying images of objects you must also display the following fields, as available: artist, title, country, dates, caption, dimensions, and photo_credit.

Preformatted Captions

If you don't want to handle the fields individually, you can retrieve the required data as one long, preformatted plain-text caption. To do so, set include_item_caption to "true" in your method request. Note that if you rely completely on preformatted captions, you should set include_item_fields to "false" in your method request to suppress field data in the response as the field data will be of no use to you.