Nasjonalmuseet’s API provides access to our collection of art, architecture and design objects, as well as artists/producers. Our online collection can be found at https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/collection.
We also publish our collection to DigitaltMuseum, at https://digitaltmuseum.org/nasjonalmuseet/.
We retired version 1 of our Collection API in January 2025 and are currently working on a version 2 with richer data and more data models. In the meantime, if you require access to our public collection data, please use the DigitaltMuseum API. You will need to request an API key from KulturIT (https://kulturit.org/). in order to fully take advantage of the API.
Public documentation can be found at https://dok.digitaltmuseum.org/api and https://api.dimu.org/doc/public_api.html
Alternatively, consult our own documentation for the DigitalMuseum API, which is more specific to the use of our collection: https://github.com/nasjonalmuseet/DiMu-API-documentation
The image files from the API (both DigitaltMuseum and Nasjonalmuseet’s API when ready) is constrained to max. 4000px on the longest side. For information about how to order files in higher resolution, please contact the museum’s Photo agency:
https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/about-the-national-museum/collection-management—behind-the-scenes/photo/photo-agency/
For more information about copyright and terms of use, please see:
https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/collection/about-the-collection/about-copyright/
If you have any questions about our API and access to our collection data in general, please contact Tord Nilsen (tord.nilsen@nasjonalmuseet.no) or Dag Hensten (dag.hensten@nasjonalmuseet.no).
