This month the British Museum launched a service known as a Semantic Endpoint that will allow more direct online access to the collection database. Although it is a technical service it will support the creation of new web applications and services accessible to many different audiences...
British Museum Collection database search
Welcome to the British Museum collection database online. Search almost two million objects from the entire Museum collection.
1,974,761 objects are available
609,419 of these have one or more images
The database is updated weekly. The range of the Museum's collection includes:
Work is continuing on the parts of the collection that have not been catalogued and new entries are continuously being added.
- Prehistoric objects from the early Palaeolithic period to the end of the Stone age across the world, including the earliest human tools in Africa and Asia
- Objects from ancient Egypt and Sudan, from the Neolithic period (around 10,000 BC) until the twelfth century AD
- Objects from Ancient Greece and Rome (including Roman Britain), from the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age (about 3,200 BC) to the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth century AD
- Archaeological and other objects from Europe, dating from the earliest times to the present day
- Objects from Africa, Oceania and the Americas representing the contemporary, archaeological and historical cultures of the indigenous peoples of four continents
- Objects from the ancient and contemporary civilisations and cultures of the Middle East from the Neolithic period until the present
- Objects covering the material and visual cultures of Japan, Korea, China, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, South and South-East Asia, and dating from the Asian Neolithic period (around 4,000 BC) to the present day, as well as the Sir Percival David Collection of Chinese ceramics
- The Museum’s collection of two-dimensional works from all over the world: almost entirely works on paper (drawings, paintings or prints), but including other categories of objects such as icons, rubbings, papercuts, mummy-portraits, wall paintings, watch papers and scrolls.
- Coins: ancient Greece and Rome, the wider Mediterranean, the ancient Middle East and Iron Age Europe, as well as paper money from across the world, plastic cards and ephemera relating to modern money and banking.
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Museum number and provenance search
Search by registration or other ID numbers, or by names of donors, former owners / collectors
Publication reference search
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Semantic web version of the database
The British Museum collection is now available in a linked data format
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