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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.
Queen Victoria &...
Manchester Art Gallery
medal.
Cyrtanthus elatus
RHS Wisley
Cyrtanthus are bulbous perennials forming a clump of strap-shaped leaves with erect stems each bearing an umbel of...
Grevy's Zebra
Marwell Wildlife
Grevy’s Zebras do not have secure harems like the Chapman’s and Mountain Zebra. The basic social unit is a mare...
St Margaret's Church
London City Tours
The Anglican church of St. Margaret, Westminster Abbey is situated in the grounds of Westminster Abbey on Parliament...
ewer & tray
Manchester Art Gallery
Miniature ewer and tray, porcelain, decorated in rose, blue and gold.
Erythronium...
RHS Wisley
Erythronium are bulbous perennials with paired, ovate or broadly elliptic leaves, and leafless stems bearing one or...
Bongo
Whipsnade Zoo
Bongos are ruminants (room-in-ants), which means they chew food, swallow it, bring it back into their mouths and chew...
Natural Arch on the...
Torre Abbey
A print of The Natural Arch, on the road to Upton, Torquay.
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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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