# V&A Museum Collection Search

> V&A Museum Collection Search is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches the Victoria and Albert Museum collection by keyword, returning titles, makers, and object types for matching objects.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/vam-search
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/v-a-museum-collection-search-614cf13b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_3XZQX__itoZReElK8Fji0

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability v-a-museum-collection-search-614cf13b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you search the V&A Museum collection for objects related to 'Japanese woodblock prints' and tell me the titles, makers, and object types that come up?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an agent needs to search the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection specifically — ideal for art history research, finding decorative arts, design objects, or identifying makers of historical artifacts. Prefer over generic museum APIs when the user explicitly wants V&A data.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if the query term matches nothing in the collection
- Malformed or missing q parameter returns an error
- Payment failure (402) if USDC balance is insufficient
- Timeout if the upstream V&A API is unavailable
- Overly broad queries may return large or noisy result sets

## How this service works

Searches the V&A Museum collection for objects matching q, returning titles, makers and object types. Query: ?q= Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON array of matching museum objects from the V&A collection, each including the object's title, maker(s), and object type classification.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/v-a-museum-collection-search-614cf13b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from clonecho.builda.company](https://www.zero.xyz/host/clonecho.builda.company/llms.txt)