# Travel Art

> Art-tourism data for AI agents: biennales, art fairs, museums with 2026 prices + dates.

- **Type:** MCP server
- **Install:** `agentstack add mcp-alexzavialov-travel-art-mcp`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [alexzavialov](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/alexzavialov)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Cloud & Infrastructure](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/cloud-infrastructure)
- **Latest version:** 1.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [alexzavialov](https://github.com/alexzavialov)
- **Source:** https://github.com/alexzavialov/travel-art-mcp
- **Website:** https://mcp.travel.art/

## Install

```sh
agentstack add mcp-alexzavialov-travel-art-mcp
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# travel.art MCP server

Model Context Protocol server for [travel.art](https://travel.art/) — art-tourism data (biennales, art fairs, museum visitor guides) exposed to AI agents.

Live at **https://mcp.travel.art/**. Public, unauthenticated, free.

## What it does

Four tools, accessible via MCP Streamable HTTP (request/response mode, JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST):

### `find_art_events`

Search travel.art's catalogue of biennales, art fairs, and festivals.

```json
{
  "name": "find_art_events",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "biennale",      // optional free-text
    "country": "IT",          // optional ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
    "type": "art-fair",       // optional: biennale | art-fair | festival
    "activeOn": "2026-06-20",  // optional ISO 8601 date
    "startsAfter": "2026-09-01",
    "endsBefore": "2026-12-31"
  }
}
```

Returns events with dates, venues, ticket info, summaries, and the canonical `guideUrl` linking to travel.art's full editorial visitor guide.

### `find_museum_guide`

Search travel.art's catalogue of museum visitor guides.

```json
{
  "name": "find_museum_guide",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "louvre",
    "city": "Paris",
    "country": "FR"
  }
}
```

Returns museums with current 2026 ticket info (including the Louvre's two-tier €22 EU / €32 non-EU pricing under *Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance*), opening hours, essential works in viewing order, route durations, and `guideUrl` to the full guide.

### `find_layover_itinerary`

Search travel.art's catalogue of 3–6 hour art-focused layover plans from major European hub airports.

```json
{
  "name": "find_layover_itinerary",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "caravaggio",        // optional free-text
    "city": "Rome",               // optional
    "country": "IT",              // optional
    "airport": "FCO",             // optional IATA code (e.g., MXP, CDG, AMS)
    "maxDurationHours": 4         // optional ceiling
  }
}
```

Returns itineraries with airports served, time-on-ground budget, art focus (artist / museum / theme), key venues, 2026-verified highlights (booking rules, Monday-closure traps, transit math), and `guideUrl` to the full hour-by-hour guide.

### `recommend_art_trip`

Recommend an art-tourism itinerary for a city. Grounded only in travel.art's published content — no fabrication.

```json
{
  "name": "recommend_art_trip",
  "arguments": {
    "city": "Florence",
    "startDate": "2026-06-15",
    "endDate": "2026-06-18"
  }
}
```

Returns events active during the trip dates plus museum guides for the city, with `guideUrl` for each.

## Quick test

```bash
# Health check
curl https://mcp.travel.art/health

# List tools (MCP)
curl -X POST https://mcp.travel.art/ \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

# Call a tool
curl -X POST https://mcp.travel.art/ \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"find_art_events","arguments":{"country":"IT"}}}'
```

## Configure your MCP client

### Claude Desktop

Add to `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json` (macOS) or the Windows/Linux equivalent:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travel-art": {
      "url": "https://mcp.travel.art/"
    }
  }
}
```

Restart Claude Desktop. The three tools should appear in the available tools list.

### Cursor, Continue, mcp-inspector, your own agent

Any MCP-capable client that supports Streamable HTTP transport works the same way — point it at `https://mcp.travel.art/`.

### Run locally over stdio

The same catalogue and the same three tools are also available as a local **stdio** MCP server, for clients that prefer a spawned process over a remote URL (and so directory evaluators can introspect the server without hitting the hosted endpoint):

```bash
git clone https://github.com/alexzavialov/travel-art-mcp.git
cd travel-art-mcp
npm install
npm start          # → npx tsx src/stdio.ts
```

To wire it into Claude Desktop as a local server instead of the remote URL:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travel-art": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["tsx", "src/stdio.ts"]
    }
  }
}
```

The stdio server is functionally identical to the hosted endpoint — same `tools.ts`, same `data.ts`.

## Catalogue

As of the latest publish:

- **Art events (22):** 6 cornerstone events (Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale, Art Basel Switzerland/Paris/Miami, Frieze London) + 16 catalogue events spanning 4 continents — Sydney/Yokohama/Gwangju/Lyon/Manifesta-16 Ruhr biennales; Art Basel Hong Kong, Frieze NY/Seoul, EXPO Chicago, TEFAF NY, The Armory Show, 1-54 London, Art SG art fairs; Rothko/Florence, Raphael/Met, Duchamp/MoMA museum exhibitions
- **Museum essentials (12):** The Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Vatican Museums + Sistine Chapel, Galleria degli Uffizi, Museo del Prado, British Museum, The Met, MoMA, Reina Sofía, Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Tate Modern
- **Layover itineraries (6):** Milan (Leonardo, 5h MXP/LIN), Rome (Caravaggio, 4h FCO/CIA), Florence (Renaissance, 6h FLR/PSA), Amsterdam (Rijks + Van Gogh, 4h AMS), Paris (Louvre lightning, 3h CDG/ORY), London (BM + Tate, 5h LHR/LGW/STN/LTN/LCY)
- **Growing weekly** as new cornerstone articles publish on travel.art

Each record includes a `lastVerified` ISO date; AI agents that weight freshness can prefer recently-verified records.

## Source

```
src/
  index.ts        # Worker entry — MCP HTTP protocol (JSON-RPC 2.0), GET info page, /health, /robots.txt
  stdio.ts        # Local stdio entry — same tools over MCP stdio transport (@modelcontextprotocol/sdk)
  tools.ts        # Tool definitions + handlers (shared by both entries)
  data.ts         # Static dataset (typed events + museums)
package.json
tsconfig.json
wrangler.toml     # Cloudflare Workers config
```

Stack: TypeScript. Two transports share one codebase: the **hosted** entry (`index.ts`) implements MCP HTTP (JSON-RPC 2.0) directly for Cloudflare Workers compatibility; the **local** entry (`stdio.ts`) uses `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk` over stdio. Both serve identical tools from `tools.ts` + `data.ts`.

## Deploy your own copy

```bash
git clone https://github.com/alexzavialov/travel-art-mcp.git
cd travel-art-mcp
npm install
npx wrangler login                            # if not already
npx wrangler deploy
```

You'll need a Cloudflare account (free tier is sufficient — 100k requests/day).

To bind to a custom domain, update `wrangler.toml` with a `routes` entry, OR use the Cloudflare dashboard's *Workers → your-worker → Settings → Triggers* to add a Custom Domain.

## Contributing

Issues and pull requests welcome.

The catalogue (`src/data.ts`) is hand-curated from published cornerstone articles on travel.art. Patches that add new events, museums, or destinations should ideally come with a corresponding visitor guide on travel.art so the `guideUrl` link resolves to substantive content — but exceptions for high-quality factual data (with primary sources cited) are considered.

## License

[MIT](LICENSE). Use it, fork it, deploy your own copy with your own catalogue.

## Contact

- Server-side issues / data corrections: mcp@travel.art
- General travel.art editorial: editor@travel.art
- Project home: [travel.art](https://travel.art/)
- Privacy policy: [travel.art/privacy/](https://travel.art/privacy/)

## Source & license

This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [alexzavialov](https://github.com/alexzavialov)
- **Source:** [alexzavialov/travel-art-mcp](https://github.com/alexzavialov/travel-art-mcp)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://mcp.travel.art/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v1.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** yes
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **1.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/mcp-alexzavialov-travel-art-mcp
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/alexzavialov
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