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Swiss Cultural Heritage Mcp

malkreide/swiss-cultural-heritage-mcp

Connects Claude to three Swiss cultural heritage APIs: SIK-ISEA's SIKART database of 17,000 artists, the Nationalmuseum's collection records, and the Nationalbibliothek's Helveticat bibliography. All three run through opendata.swiss CKAN or OAI-PMH endpoints with no auth required. Exposes search and retrieval tools for each source plus a cross-search that queries all three in parallel. Read-only operations marked with readOnlyHint. Ships with stdio for Claude Desktop and SSE transport for browser deployments. Useful when you need to cross-reference Swiss artists with museum holdings or pull biographical context from primary cultural sources. Part of a broader Swiss public data MCP portfolio covering legal, transport, and statistical datasets.

tools: 11
transport: STDIO
last updated: Sep 19, 2026

Tools

11 tools

Public tool metadata for what this MCP can expose to an agent.

heritage_search_artistsSearch ~17,000 Swiss artists (SIKART) by name or place

Search ~17,000 Swiss artists (SIKART) by name or place

No parameter schema in public metadata yet.

heritage_get_artistFull artist profile by SIKART ID (HAUPTNR)

Full artist profile by SIKART ID (HAUPTNR)

No parameter schema in public metadata yet.

heritage_search_museum_datasetsSearch SNM datasets on opendata.swiss

Search SNM datasets on opendata.swiss

No parameter schema in public metadata yet.

heritage_browse_collectionBrowse objects within a collection via CKAN DataStore

Browse objects within a collection via CKAN DataStore

No parameter schema in public metadata yet.

heritage_search_helveticatFull-text search over the whole holdings (SRU), or browse one collection (OAI-PMH)

Full-text search over the whole holdings (SRU), or browse one collection (OAI-PMH)

No parameter schema in public metadata yet.

heritage_list_nb_collectionsList the 68 available OAI-PMH sets

List the 68 available OAI-PMH sets

No parameter schema in public metadata yet.

heritage_get_publicationSelected MARC21 fields for one publication, normalised to Dublin-Core-style keys (OAI-PMH GetRecord) — not the complete catalogue record

Selected MARC21 fields for one publication, normalised to Dublin-Core-style keys (OAI-PMH GetRecord) — not the complete catalogue record

No parameter schema in public metadata yet.

heritage_cross_searchParallel search across SIK-ISEA + SNM + NB

Parallel search across SIK-ISEA + SNM + NB

No parameter schema in public metadata yet.

search_heritageFederated search over Memobase + Dodis (collection = memobase | dodis | all), with date_from / date_to / media_type filters. Every result carries source, permalink and a split metadata/digitised-object licence

Federated search over Memobase + Dodis (collection = memobase | dodis | all), with date_from / date_to / media_type filters. Every result carries source, permalink and a split metadata/digitised-object licence

No parameter schema in public metadata yet.

get_heritage_itemFull metadata for one object (collection, item_id). Metadata + links only — protected full texts are never reproduced

Full metadata for one object (collection, item_id). Metadata + links only — protected full texts are never reproduced

No parameter schema in public metadata yet.

list_heritage_collectionsDiscovery: which collections exist, their protocol, auth and licences — including the probed-but-not-connected sources (Bundesarchiv, Landesmuseum) and why

Discovery: which collections exist, their protocol, auth and licences — including the probed-but-not-connected sources (Bundesarchiv, Landesmuseum) and why

No parameter schema in public metadata yet.

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Readme

🇨🇭 Part of the Swiss Public Data MCP Portfolio

🏛️ swiss-cultural-heritage-mcp

MCP Server for Swiss cultural heritage — SIK-ISEA artists, Nationalmuseum collections, and the Nationalbibliothek bibliography

🇩🇪 Deutsche Version

Overview

swiss-cultural-heritage-mcp provides AI-native access to Swiss cultural heritage data sources, all without authentication:

View the full README on GitHub

Details

Repository: github.com/malkreide/swiss-cultural-heritage-mcp
Website: github.com/malkreide/swiss-cultural-heritage-mcp
Package: swiss-cultural-heritage-mcp
Transport: STDIO
Registry: MCP registry, active