science-museum-mcp 0.1.23

MCP Server for the British Science Museum

A Model Context Protocol Server for the British Science Museum Data API

This project is a Python MCP (https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction) server that allows your LLM to fetch data from the British Science Museum. Info is available at https://github.com/TheScienceMuseum/collectionsonline/wiki/Collections-Online-API#get-search.

Developing

This section is for anyone who wants to contribute to the codebase.

Setup and Install Dependencies

Clone the repository.

The project is configured to use uv (Install link: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/#installation) for dependency management and building. It uses npx (Install link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/npx) to run the MCP inspector.

Create a virtual env with

uv venv

And install dependencies with

uv pip install -r pyproject.toml

Run the inspector with

./inspector.sh

The inspector should output the localhost URL for accessing its UI.

Running Unit Tests

source .venv/bin/activate
pytest