Rijksmuseum collection

Base URL

https://data.rijksmuseum.nl

Endpoints 7

• GET/search/collectionSearch the museum collection; 100 identifiers per page, total in partOf.totalItems, next page in next.id.
• GEThttps://id.rijksmuseum.nl/{nummer}?_profile=la-framedResolver: all data on an object, person, place … as Linked Art JSON-LD. Without _profile a browser is redirected to the collection website.
• GET/{nummer}The same data on data.rijksmuseum.nl, always as data (not the canonical URI).
• GET/oai?verb=…OAI-PMH: Identify, ListMetadataFormats (edm, oai_dc), ListSets, ListIdentifiers, ListRecords, GetRecord. Museum objects only.
• GET/ldes/collection.jsonLDES change stream (Create, Update, Delete), organised by year, month and day via tree:relation; also per dataset: /ldes/dataset/{number}/collection.json.
• GET/cd/collection.jsonIIIF Change Discovery: Activity Streams of changes, start at the last page.
• GEThttps://iiif.micr.io/{id}/full/{breedte},/0/default.jpgIIIF Image API: an image at any size; info.json gives the dimensions, /manifest the IIIF Presentation manifest.

Filtering from the description

Query parameters, combinable (AND); creator, material, technique and aboutActor are repeatable. Partial matching on text, wildcards * and ? only for objectNumber and creationDate.

Parameters 12

Fields in Search and Linked Art (selection) 12

Limits and pitfalls

• Search: always 100 results per page; no limit on the number of pages (according to the documentation). from the description
• No documented rate limit. data.rijksmuseum.nl has no robots.txt (404); iiif.micr.io does have Disallow: / for all bots: fetch images for display, not in automated bulk. tested
• type is a partial match: print also finds photomechanical print, schilderij and painting return different counts. State the term you used. experience
• OAI-PMH ListSets returned 'An unhandled exception occurred.' on 16 Oct 2026; ListIdentifiers with metadataPrefix=edm worked (completeListSize 846,804). tested
• Since 11 June 2026 the EDM in OAI-PMH strictly follows Europeana's schemas; anyone parsing the XML directly should check this. from the description
• Library and archive are not in Search and OAI-PMH. Library data are in the LDES stream and the data dumps (including 321,354 bibliographic works in work.tar.gz). from the description

Try it HTTP 200 · 310 ms · 16 Oct

https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/search/collection?creator=Rembrandt van Rijn&type=painting

{
  "@context": "https://linked.art/ns/v1/search.json",
  "id": "https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/search/collection?creator=Rembrandt%20van%20Rijn&type=painting",
  "type": "OrderedCollectionPage",
  "partOf": {
    "id": "https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/search/collection?creator=Rembrandt+van+Rijn&type=painting",
    "type": "OrderedCollection",
    "totalItems": 25,
    "first": {
      "id": "https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/search/collection?creator=Rembrandt+van+Rijn&type=painting",
      "type": "OrderedCollectionPage"
    },
    "last": {
      "id": "https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/search/collection?creator=Rembrandt+van+Rijn&type=painting",
      "type": "OrderedCollectionPage"
    }
  },
  "orderedItems": [
    {
      "id": "https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200106038",
      "type": "HumanMadeObject"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200107928",
      "type": "HumanMadeObject"
    }
  ]
}

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