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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.
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Leptospermum rupestre
RHS Wisley
Leptospermum are aromatic evergreen shrubs or small trees with small, often silky leaves and 5-petalled flowers in...
Bactrian Camel
Blair Drummond Safari...
Scientific name: Camelus bactrianus
Bactrian camels will eat any type of plant matter they find in their arid...
Berry Head & Brixham
Torre Abbey
An engraving the sun filtering through the clouds over berry Head and Brixham. Three is a rowing boat in the foreground.
dress
Manchester Art Gallery
Pink silk brocaded with floral sprays in shades of brown, green, pink and blue, with a twilled weave. Bodice lined...
Echinops bannaticus...
RHS Wisley
Echinops can be annuals, biennials or perennials with simple or pinnately lobed, spiny leaves and spherical blue or...
Common Brown Lemur
Blair Drummond Safari...
Scientific name: Eulemur fulvus
They normally live in groups of 5 to 12 including members of both sexes and...
Sketch of Four Women...
Torre Abbey
Three women carrying pots on their heads with one child. Also a study - full length of a standing woman.
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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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