What is an
Object?
Anything can be an object: a thousand-year-old coin in a museum, a painting in an art gallery, a plant in a botanical garden, an animal in a zoo, a building in a city, even a person.
Browse online collections on OOKL and discover for yourself. Find objects in museums, galleries, historic houses, and many more.
Map of the island of...
Bristol Museum and Art...
Map of the island of Barbadoes. From A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes , by Richard Ligon, gent....
Haemanthus albiflos
RHS Wisley
Haemanthus are evergreen or deciduous perennial bulbs with strap-shaped or broadly elliptic leaves and small flowers...
Giraffe
Colchester Zoo
Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world superbly adapted to feed on the leaves at the tops of trees. Males can...
A lady with brown hair...
Torre Abbey
Miniature. Portrait of a lady with brown hair wearing a brown dress and a string of pearls. In an old English gilt...
spoon-tray
Manchester Art Gallery
Oval spoon-tray made of silver with a raised rim.
Crinum x powellii
RHS Wisley
Crinum are bulbous perennials, sometimes evergreen, with umbels of showy, fragrant, funnel-shaped flowers held well...
Dragons of Komodo
Colchester Zoo
Colchester Zoo is one of the few zoos in the UK approved to keep Komodo Dragons and 'Dragons of Komodo' is now open...
A group of three...
Torre Abbey
Miniature of a group of three ladies bathing by a cascade.
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Abies koreana 'Silberlocke'
RHS Wisley
Abies are evergreen conifers, often very tall, with whorled branches bearing flattened, linear leaves, often whitish beneath, and on the upper branches, large cones...
Commuting by Cable
Old Treasury Building
Travel by cable tram through the streets of Melbourne between 1885 and 1940. This documentary presents rare archival footage detailing the story of the largest cable...
Horse Ramp (in canals)
London Canal Museum
The ramps in the canals were once used to save horses after they fell into the river. Animal safety was important, or at least it was important to retain the animals...
Canal Gate
London Canal Museum
These gates were put in place to stop the flow of the river. It was necessary to do this in the instance of bombs falling on the Canal and ceasing the flow of debris....
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