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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.
buttons
Manchester Art Gallery
Collection card of 12 brass, silver plated, moulded and engraved, circular, livery buttons. Loop shanks
Geranium 'Ann Folkard'
RHS Wisley
Geranium can be annuals, biennials and perennials, herbaceous or evergreen, with rounded, usually palmately lobed or...
Przewalski's horse
Whipsnade Zoo
The Przewalski's (shuv-als-keys) horse is a great success story for conservation. For some time it was classified as...
A lady reclining, with...
Torre Abbey
Miniature. Portrait of a lady reclining, with a red background. Oval gilded filigree frame studded with turquoise.
Pou-Ki-Kona, copied...
Bowes Museum
Size: 20.5 x 15.5 cm.
Iris 'Titan's Glory' (TB)
RHS Wisley
Iris may be rhizomatous or bulbous perennials, with narrowly sword-shaped leaves and erect stems bearing flowers with...
Olive Baboon
Knowsley Safari Park
We now have over 100 baboons in our troop, all of them born at Knowsley. There are many different species of baboon,...
Charles I and Siblings
Torre Abbey
This painting was presented to Sir George Cary and depicts the three eldest children of Charles I. It shows, from...
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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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