Artwork & Artifacts Explorer

A mobile friendly webpage to discover items from the Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum NYC public APIs

This project is designed to allow the user to enter search terms and search for items from either of the afore mentioned APIs.

Results will then be displayed, with expandable details explaining pertinent information about each of artwork or artifact. The user is also able to view a full screen image of a chosen item, or add it to their own personal collection.

The users collection of chosen results may be viewed without the current search results being lost. Any items added to the collection may be removed either when they appear as search results, or from the user collection directly.

Imagined use case:

A user is intending to visit the museum or gallery and wanting to plan a list of what to see in person. Considering this, all results display both where they are stored and if they are currently on view to the public. When available, the exacty gallery number of an item's exhibition is also displayed .

Viewing the finished project:

-The project is hosted using netlify, and is available here

Running the project locally:

• Dowload your own copy of the project from GitHub
• Open the project and run command 'npm i' in your terminal to install dependencies outlined in the package.json
• Again in terminal, run 'npm run dev' to run the vite script
• The project will now be running locally in your browser

All data and images are public domain and provided through the Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum NYC public APIs.

The Art Institute of Chicago API documentation can be found here

The Metropolitan Museum NYC API documentation can be found here

This project has been soley produced by BytingMicrochips, 2024