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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.
Charmstone
NMS
This fragment of stone comes from the island chapel site of Isle Maree in Loch Maree in Ross and Cromarty, where it...
Astilbe glaberrima...
RHS Wisley
Astilbe are rhizomatous herbaceous perennials with divided leaves and erect plume-like panicles of tiny white, pink...
Pere David's Deer
Knowsley Safari Park
Pere David's Deer were only discovered by western science in 1865
Miniature portrait of...
Torre Abbey
Miniature. Portrait of a young lady in a pink dress with pale yellow headdress. Three-quarter face to the left.
St. John the Baptist
Bowes Museum
The saint is shown threequarters length, seated and nude from the waist upwards, except for his left shoulder which...
Large Reclining Figure
Kew Gardens
This piece is a large abstract figurative form, which has been sited so that the Palm House forms a stunning...
Partula Snail
London Zoo
As there are many species and subspecies of Partula snail they are important to scientists because they help show how...
Prayer Book of the...
Torre Abbey
Black, leather bound prayer book of Epistles and Gospels with flyleaf inscription in ink - "Anna Cary,August 2nd...
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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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