MuseumofModernArt/collection resource

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

The Museum of Modern Art's open collection dataset, containing metadata for over 160,000 accessioned artworks and nearly 16,000 artists in CSV and JSON formats. It is released under a CC0 public domain license and updated regularly, though it includes no images.

Use cases

• analyze MoMA's art collection metadata
• build a visualization of artists in the MoMA collection
• research trends in mediums and acquisition dates
• train models on museum catalog records
• explore artist nationality and gender demographics
• create an art collection search or browsing app

When to choose

• you need public-domain museum metadata for research or data projects
• you want structured CSV/JSON records of artworks and artists
• you are building data visualizations or teaching data analysis with real-world cultural data

When to avoid

• you need images of the artworks, which are not included
• you require complete, curator-approved records for every work
• you expect to contribute data back via pull requests, which are not accepted

Facets

dataset · maturity active

data-science csv data-science education analytics cross-platform museum art open-data moma metadata public-domain

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="MuseumofModernArt/collection")