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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.
Medal (Obverse), of...
NMS
This is the obverse of a medal produced in 1826 by the Beggar's Benison Club. This secretive club was established in...
Aesculus hippocastanum
RHS Wisley
Aesculus can be deciduous trees or large shrubs with showy flowers, palmately-lobed leaves and sometimes good autumn...
Ostrich
Whipsnade Zoo
The ostrich is the largest living bird and it is unable to fly. The feathers are soft and fluffy.
The male ostrich...
Dittisham
Torre Abbey
A river scene with moored boats and houses in the distance, in Dittisham.
Mace was a landscape painter and...
Bust of Leonello,...
V & A
Bust of Leonello, Marquess of Este Diameter 2.75 in
Hebe 'Red Edge'
RHS Wisley
Hebe are evergreen shrubs with paired, simple leaves and racemes or spikes of small, 4-lobed, tubular to...
Burmese python
Whipsnade Zoo
Burmese pythons are excellent swimmers and good climbers, using their tails to hang onto branches. A Burmese python...
Ploughing
Torre Abbey
Acc. A362
A rural scene depicting two horses, ploughing a field. There is a farmer in the middle distance. The sky...
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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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