{"id":455,"date":"2010-01-18T13:38:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T18:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=455"},"modified":"2023-05-29T15:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T20:42:44","slug":"museum-databases","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=455","title":{"rendered":"Museum Databases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m compiling a list of museums with useful online catalogs. Many institutions have websites with a few pictures, but some have put significant numbers of objects on line, with detailed descriptions and high-resolution photographs. Those are the ones I&#8217;m interested in. I will be adding museums to this list as I go, and welcome suggestions for others. Institutions with textile holdings are of course the most interesting, but any can be added to the list.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hermitagemuseum.org\/wps\/portal\/hermitage\/explore\/?lng=en\">Hermitage<\/a>, St Petersburg, Russia. Paintings, Sculpture, Machinery and mechanisms, Arms and armour, Furniture and carriages, Ceramics and porcelain, Applied arts, Jewellery, Textiles, Numismatics and glyptics, Costume, Archaeological artifacts<br \/>\nTextiles: lots of tapestries, some lace, embroidery (lots of 18-19th c., some earlier), tassels and fringe (17-19th)\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/collections.vam.ac.uk\/\">Victoria and Albert<\/a>, London, England. One of the better online collections, with many items, good organization, and lots of detail.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/explore\/highlights.aspx\">British Museum<\/a>, London, England\n<p>Highlights only &#8211; 4000 items, organized  by culture, place, material\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mis.historiska.se\/mis\/sok\/sok.asp\">Swedish Historical Museum<\/a> (Historiska Museet), Stockholm, Sweden<br \/>\nTremendous resource for Scandinavian artifacts &#8211; lots of Viking and medieval data. Search is in Swedish. There&#8217;s a Google translate button to help you get started. If you click on &#8220;F\u00c3\u00b6rem\u00c3\u00a5l&#8221;, you are taken to a search page that also provides complete lists of search words for different categories (item, material, etc). <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalmuseum.se\/en\/samlingarna\">Swedish National Museum<\/a> (Nationalmuseum), Stockholm, Sweden.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum.ie\/en-IE\/Collections-Research\">National Museum of Ireland<\/a><br \/>\nI hope they add more &#8211; not a lot of textiles included.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cs.nga.gov.au\/Search.cfm\">National Gallery of Australia<\/a><br \/>\nAsian textiles especially. Good Indonesian collection, but the search function is awful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.textilemuseum.ca\/collection\/\">Textile Museum of Canada<\/a><br \/>\nNice browse functions. Search for &#8220;card woven&#8221; instead of &#8220;tablet woven.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.textilemuseum.org\/exhibitions\/current.htm\">The Textile Museum<\/a><br \/>\nCan browse current and past exhibitions, highlights; as yet no general search function.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.natmus.dk\/digital-collections\/\">National Museum of Denmark<\/a><br \/>\nGreat, zoomable photos of various exhibits.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/egressfoundation.net\/egress\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=72&#038;Itemid=345\">Bibliographica Textilia Historiae database<\/a> indexes books, articles, royal decrees, and all sorts of other works on the history of textiles from the late 15th century onward.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/intarch.ac.uk\/journal\/issue30\/ashby_index.html\">An Atlas of Medieval Combs from Northern Europe<\/a>,&#8221; by Steven P. Ashby, is not a searchable textile database, I admit, but I found it a useful reference. If I come across enough resources of this sort I&#8217;ll give them their own page.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rijksmuseum.nl\/en\/search\">The Rijksmuseum<\/a> has a searchable online database with some textile content (and many other pretty things).<\/li>\n<li>Ditto for the <a href=\"https:\/\/images.nga.gov\/en\/page\/show_home_page.html\">US National Gallery of Art<\/a>.<\/li>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"togs-from-bogs.blogspot.com\">Katrin Kania<\/a> sent me a few resources: <\/p>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/explorer\/index.php\">Fitzwilliam Museum<\/a> has primarily Egyptian textiles.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imareal.sbg.ac.at\/en\/realonline\/\">Institut fur mittelalterliche Realienkunde<\/a> &#8211; search for &#8220;Textilie&#8221; in  &#8220;Materielle Objekte&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kikirpa.be\/www2\/wwwopac\/en\/object.html\">Royal Institute for the Artistic Heritage of Belgium<\/a> <\/li>\n<hr>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have suggestions, please leave a comment <a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=460\">here<\/a> or email me at the contact address in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m compiling a list of museums with useful online catalogs. Many institutions have websites with a few pictures, but some have put significant numbers of objects on line, with detailed descriptions and high-resolution photographs. Those are the ones I&#8217;m interested in. I will be adding museums to this list as I go, and welcome suggestions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-455","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/455\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}