Collections

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

Themes

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Art

Inspiring art, artists and stories

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Fashion

Clothing, accessories and designs

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Natural history

Drawings, specimens, images and documents

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Photography

Inspiring images and the history of photography

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Features

Middle Ages

Explore stories from medieval Europe: from monastic rules to court culture to university education.

a black and white photograph of a man sitting behind a loom-like device that has multiple threads coming down into the spine of a book. The man is in the process of threading a new page through the threads to add to the book.
Making Culture

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

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Broadcasting Europe

Explore Europe's audiovisual heritage

Black history

Explore the histories of Black people in Europe

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Galleries

colour illustration of three yellow and silver fish swimming above a coral reef
Create a gallery

Save your favourite items and create your own galleries

a boy in a spacesuit holding a cracker
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Having fun with space

Space traveling is cutting-edge science but can also be serious fun

Detail of a manuscript with a miniature scene of St. Pachomius receiving the monastic rule from an angel
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Monastic rules

Explore this gallery of monastic rules and similar formative texts

Disappearing trades and occupations

Celebrating the intangible heritage of several jobs and trades are disappearing.

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