Departments are the functional sections that the museum is subdivided into, they include “Textile DepartmentDepartment (API) The section of the museum that an object is associated with.”, “Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department” and “Exhibitions”. Queries to access departments are simple, as follows:

{
  department {
    collectionsOnlineIdcollectionsOnlineId (API) A legacy ID specific to Cooper Hewitt's collection site established in 2012
    id
    identifierIdentifier (API) A group of fields containing different unique identifiers for an object, agent, exhibition, or other unique datatype
    summary
    objectObject (Museology) Artefact or specimen held in a museum collection.

(Computer science) A software "bundle" consisting of a set of variables which define the states the object can exist in and a set of functions that define its behavior. {
        id 
        summary
    }
  }
}
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Departments can be both searched and sorted by the following fieldsFields (Computer Science) The smallest container of information in a database. A field is named, e.g. "Title" or "Date" and each record contains a group of fields.:

page: int
size: int
sort: [{arg1: order}, {arg2: order}] 

general: stringString (Computer Science) A string is a sequence of characters forming words or sentences

collectionsOnlineId:string
id: string
summary: string