British Museum Collection Database Online

Introducing our new, fully-operational, beta collection search 
Matthew Cock, Head of web, British Museum
December 7, 2012 • 4:24 pm

In a recent post, I wrote about the launch of our new collection search beta. Well, we’ve now gone a bit further, and released an overhaul of the ‘advanced search’ functionality...

Collection search (beta)

2,042,506 objects are available
711,896 of these have one or more images

Last updated: 2 December 2012

We are updating the design and functionality of the British Museum collection search.

This Beta release includes a new-style search facility, with advanced functionality, and new layouts for search results, object pages and image galleries.
Please note that there is a small chance the record for an object on the beta is out-of-date. To be sure that you are getting the latest version of the data, please use the full version of the collection search
Read more about this on our blog and if you have any feedback or questions about the new design and functionality please either comment on the post or email web@britishmuseum.org with COL BETA in your subject line.