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Curator MCP

An MCP server that turns the Museums Victoria Collections API (1.15M+ records) into natural-language discovery tools for Copilot Studio and other MCP clients.

A mustard cat in round glasses with two question marks

Curator is a Model Context Protocol server wrapping the Museums Victoria Collections API. Point Copilot Studio (or any MCP client) at it and you can search and explore more than 1.15 million specimens, items, articles and species records conversationally, with taxonomy, images, provenance and dates.

Why

Museum collections are wonderful and badly under-explored. MCP makes them one question away.

How it’s built

  • Tools: search_collections, single-record lookups (get_specimen, get_item, get_article) and paginated browsing.
  • Hosting: a streamable-HTTP MCP service built with FastMCP, served over HTTPS from an always-warm Azure Container App.
  • Delivery: GitHub Actions builds and pushes to Azure Container Registry; the app pulls with a managed identity. Terraform provisions the lot.