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.
Silhouetted man face...
Virtual Museum
Despite it being illegal for street or graffiti artists to paint the wall of public buildings, it is a feature seen...
Potentilla fruticosa...
RHS Wisley
Potentilla can be herbaceous perennials, deciduous shrubs, or annuals, with palmately or pinnately divided leaves and...
African Lion
Colchester Zoo
Lions are the most social of the big cats; living in family groups, known as prides, with 4-12 closely related adult...
Babe & Blue
Blue Ox Millworks and...
Babe & Blue are our Oxen. They live here at Blue Ox Millworks along with many other critters, including: Our Donkey...
Fashion plate, from La...
NMS
This fashion plate is from La Nouvelle Mode, a weekly fashion journal published in Paris. Dated 1909, the plate is...
Hydrangea paniculata...
RHS Wisley
Hydrangea can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs, or self-clinging climbers, with flowers in clusters usually...
Red Ruffed Lemur
Blair Drummond Safari...
Scientific name: Varecia rubra
As its name would suggest, it has a rust-coloured ruff and body. Its head, stomach,...
An Italian Hill Village
Torre Abbey
A preparatory sketch for a later work. In the centre is a cluster of cottages, beyond which a hill rises steeply....
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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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