Online Searchable Museum Collection Databases

Atlas is a database of around 30,000 of the works of art exhibited in the Louvre.

The archaeolog ical research project of the North/Sout h metro line in Amsterdam; catalogs finds from the excavation s.

220,000 on line images from German museums. Awesome and amazing.

A searchable illustrated catalogue of all the western illuminated manusripts in the British Library.

Instant access to thousands of images from the British Library's unparalleled collections. Low-resolution images found on these pages may be freely downloaded for personal use by individuals and by schools.

Provides access to the medieval codices in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen.

Cotswold Museum Service cares for around one and a half million archaeolog ical and social history objects in the Council&#3 9;s collection s. Many of the objects are displayed at the recently refurbishe d and extended Corinium Museum, Cirenceste r.

See The Collection s to search for items.

Images and detailed descriptions of the collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. The descriptions, compiled by several generations of curators, often contain information not available elsewhere, such as complete lists of texts and illustrations within a manuscript and bibliographies.

The Enluminures database allows for free consultation of more than 80,000 reproductions of illuminations and elements of decoration of more than 4,000 medieval manuscripts preserved in a hundred French public libraries.

Click on "Recherche" to search for books and manuscripts in the collection of the national library of France.

An iconographic database covering about 15,000 of the illuminations in the BNF's Department of Manuscripts.

Our manuscript collection includes most of the kinds of books used between 1000 and 1500 A.D.: prayer books and poetry, Bibles and political propaganda, philosophical works and fantastic histories. Some manuscripts are elaborate and beautiful works of art; others are humble "owner-produced" books, copied out from a borrowed copy by someone who needed a particular text. Each one tells us something about a long-vanished age. Books have been photographed to look like three-dimensional objects instead of flat images. Individual leaves and cuttings are shown front and back to give as much information as possible about the leaf's original context. All texts should be legible in close-up view.

This website, a collaboration of the Koninklije Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) and Museum Meermanno, features many illustrations from illuminated manuscripts, searchable by subject matter. This can be searched by looking at the highlights of the collection, by subject, or if you know more details about a specific piece, you can search for it too. Amazing stuff here.

This database contains descriptions of all medieval western manuscripts written in Latin script and produced up to c. 1550 now preserved in public and semi-public collections in the Netherlands. These include the collections of libraries, museums and archives, as well as the collections of monastic orders and some other private institutions that are open to researchers.

The National Gallery, London, houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world.

To search, download and license images from their world-renowned fine art collection, see the National Gallery Picture Library .

The National Museums Scotland online collections database features some of the museums' three million objects and specimens, ranging from the earliest times to the present day.

NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 685,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, and more.

The database is now a living resource, constantly updated by our staff with several hundred new objects each day. The objects recorded by the Scheme, are known as "porta ble antiquitie s" and are found by members of the public. These objects range from the Palaeolith ic to around the 18th Century, and include items recorded in the Annual Treasure Report published by the UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

The Portable Antiquitie s Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeolog ical objects found by members of the public in England and Wales.

A searchable index of Central European artwork, from the Institut fur Realienkun de des Mittelalte rs und der fruhen Neuzeit.

Search for items in French museum collections.

Search for items in Belgian museum collections. Use French or Dutch to search the database.

Searches thousands of works from the Victoria & Albert Museum, providing good photos and descriptions of items in the collections.

This index aims to note all the images contained within the collection of medieval manuscripts held in St John's College Library, as listed in the James catalogue. Every major subject and figure is listed. On-line reproductions of some of the more interesting and important images are available from the index, and are searchable by keyword.

The Schøyen Collection comprises most types of manuscripts from the whole world spanning over 5000 years. It is the largest private manuscript collection formed in the 20th century.

Database with photographs of items from four Norwegian museums: Bergen Museum, Kulturhistorisk Museum, Tromso Museum and Vitenskapsmuseet.

The museum offers strong collections in ancient, medieval and renaisance art. The museum holds one of the foremost jewelry collections in the world.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingu al format, significan t primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

The online picture library of the York Archaeological Trust.