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.
Mould
Bowes Museum
Light hardwood mould carved with impressions of friezes of ornament, a gothic border, a circular medallion with a...
Potentilla fruticosa...
RHS Wisley
Potentilla can be herbaceous perennials, deciduous shrubs, or annuals, with palmately or pinnately divided leaves and...
Philippine sailfin lizard
Whipsnade Zoo
These lizards spend most of the day lying on branches over water and if something disturbs them they drop into the...
Lieutenant General...
Torre Abbey
This portrait is of Augustus William Henry Meyrick as a young man. He is wearing the uniform of the Scots Fusilier...
Horn cup
Bristol Museum and Art...
Horn cup inscribed with Liverpool, Bristol, Africas. With thanks to Mr AH Stevens for the use of this item.
Wiggly Tree
Exbury Gardens
Exbury's 'Wiggly Tree' is an oriental plane tree found in Home Wood. It is on the Heritage Tree Register and forms...
Guanaco
Knowsley Safari Park
The guanaco is a wild relative of the llama and native to mountainous south-western regions of South America. It has...
August-Gold of Earth
Torre Abbey
A rural scene depicting shire horses ploughing at harvest time with farmhands. In the background, the sea can be...
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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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