Collections

Explore our collection by theme, topic, century, and institution.

Themes

Explore the study of animals and plants through drawings, photographs and texts of specimens and the biologists and botanists who studied them.

Explore printed publications from 1618 to the 1980s. Discover headlines, full-text articles, advertisements, and the writers behind them.

Explore the history of photography, discover incredible images and find out about the photographers behind them.

Explore the history of sport and sports people, with photographs, films, sound recordings and texts documenting everything from everyday experiences to the heights of Olympic glory.

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Features

Discover notable women and their work throughout history

Explore disability stories, narratives and heritage from Europe and beyond

Heritage showing how artisans and crafters have shaped and remade culture through the ages

Find your crayons! Sharpen your coloured pencils! And enjoy adding colours in one of the books we have prepared for you.

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Latest galleries

Chemnitz is the third largest city in German state of Saxony, with a rich architectural heritage - from Baroque to Art Nouveau to industrial, modernist and Brutalist buildings.

Children and adults alike get playful when it's snowy outside. Let's bring some winter fun with these images depicting snowball fights

Depictions of laughter from art, science and more!

The following compilation presents nighttime Budapest through photographs taken in the first decades of photography without artificial lighting. These photographs are from the Hungarian National Museum.

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