Swiss MCP Server

Heritage inventories, monument lists, archaeological registers

Local serverstdioPython

What is the Swiss MCP server?

Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. Swiss MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. Heritage inventories, monument lists, archaeological registers.

The short version

swiss-cultural-heritage-mcp provides AI-native access to Swiss cultural heritage data sources, all without authentication:

  • 🏛️ 11 tools, 2 resources, 2 prompts across five data sources
  • 🔍 heritage_cross_search — parallel search across SIK-ISEA + SNM + NB in a single call
  • 🏛️ search_heritage — federated facade over Memobase + Dodis with per-result source, permalink and split metadata/digitised-object licence
  • 🌐 Bilingual output (Markdown / JSON)
  • 🔓 No API key required — all data under open licenses
  • ☁️ Dual transport — stdio (Claude Desktop) + Streamable HTTP (cloud)

The tools it exposes

The server publishes 1 tool. What each one is for:

  • Demo — The Demo tool exposed by this server

What it needs from you

  • Python 3.11+ - uv (recommended) or pip ---

Getting it running

The server ships on PyPI as swiss-cultural-heritage-mcp, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.

How it compares

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Swiss's toolset — Demo — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by malkreide; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Things to watch

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
DemoThe Demo tool exposed by this server.

How to install the Swiss MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swiss-cultural-heritage": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "swiss_cultural_heritage_mcp.server"]
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

  • Python 3.11+ - uv (recommended) or pip ---

Example prompts to try

  • Use Swiss to Demo.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Swiss to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 1 tool (Demo) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Swiss directly.