specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Rijksmuseum
providerId: rijksmuseum
created: '2026-05-29'
modified: '2026-05-29'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Open Data
  - Museum
  - Cultural Heritage
  - Free Tier
  - Public Domain
description: >-
  The Rijksmuseum data services are offered as a single free open-data plan.
  Access is gated only by an API key — issued instantly to anyone who creates a
  free Rijksstudio account at rijksmuseum.nl. The plan exposes the full set of
  REST endpoints (Collection search, Collection Details, Image Tiles,
  Rijksstudio user sets) plus the OAI-PMH harvesting protocol and bulk data
  dumps. There is no paid tier, no usage-tier upsell, and no enterprise
  contract — the museum's Open Data Policy (in force since 2002) and FAIR data
  principles commit the institution to keeping the data services free at the
  point of use. Commercial use of object images licensed CC0 / Public Domain
  Mark is permitted; modern works and museum building photography may carry
  CC-BY or other terms documented in the data policy.
sources:
  - https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/api/
  - https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/harvest/
  - https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio
  - https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/data/policy
plans:
  - id: rijksmuseum-rijksstudio-open-data
    name: Rijksstudio Open Data
    type: freemium
    description: >-
      Free open-data plan with an API key issued instantly on Rijksstudio
      account creation. Covers all REST, OAI-PMH, and bulk-download endpoints.
    entries:
      - label: REST API Requests
        name: rest_requests
        type: quota
        metric: request
        limit: 10000
        timeFrame: day
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Collection Search Result Window
        name: collection_search_window
        type: quota
        metric: result
        limit: 10000
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: OAI-PMH Harvesting Requests
        name: oai_pmh_requests
        type: quota
        metric: request
        limit: 10000
        timeFrame: day
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Bulk Data Download
        name: bulk_data_dumps
        type: flat
        metric: download
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: usage
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Collection Search API (en + nl)
      - name: Collection Details API
      - name: Collection Image Tiles API (deep-zoom z0–z6)
      - name: Usersets API (Rijksstudio user-generated content)
      - name: Userset Details API
      - name: OAI-PMH Harvesting API (Dublin Core, EDM, LIDO)
      - name: Controlled Vocabularies Download
      - name: Bibliographic Data (SRU)
      - name: Persistent Identifier Resolver
      - name: Linked Data Event Streams (LDES)
      - name: Linked Art / Europeana Data Model Modelling
      - name: Public Domain Image Reuse (CC0 / PDM)