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Themes

Explore recordings, sheet music, instruments and musical styles, as well as composers and performers.

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.

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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

For years, the story of Homer's Odyssey has inspired artists, writers and storytellers. Explore how this epic journey has been reimagined through paintings, drawings, prints and artefacts.

Hungarian beach culture evolved from Roman bathing traditions and the Ottoman thermal bath heritage, becoming a popular leisure activity in the 19th century. In the 1840s, at the initiative of István Széchenyi, bathing culture around Lake Balaton began to…

EUreka3D-XR project is focused on transforming cultural contents such 2D, 3D, video, texts, maps, stories into compelling narratives and extended reality scenarios. The project aims to enrich the corpus of open access digital cultural contents online and …

Discover the glassplates depicting images of insects, plants, and more that were used within KU Leuven to teach University classes.

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Recent items

Scan The World

Scan the World

The Hunt Museum

The Hunt Museum

Regino, Prumiensis

Universität Mannheim. Universitätsbibliothek