Object database: Online visit to the German Historical Museum
From the Luther Bible to corona tests: The German Historical Museum in Berlin displays almost 800,000 historical objects in its online database.
German Historical Museum in Berlin
(Image: Deutsches Historisches Museum/Ulrich Schwarz)
Sound recordings over 100 years old, a Luther Bible from the 16th century or a call for a climate strike: the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin has revised and expanded its object database. Many exhibits can be viewed online.
The DHM's collection comprises around one million objects. Around 780,000 of these are digitally recorded in the object database and can be viewed online, the DHM announced. This “enables comprehensive external research into the provenance of objects and creates an essential basis for international provenance research.”
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The collection is constantly being expanded
The objects in the collection include everyday items such as toys, sound recordings and crockery, advertising, traffic and information signs, religious and art objects and digitized books. There are also historically significant objects from several centuries up to the present day, such as masks and tests relating to the coronavirus pandemic. According to the DHM, around 7,000 data sets are added to the digital collection every year.
Online-Objektdatenbank des Deutschen Historischen Museums (4 Bilder)
DHM
)The collection can be accessed in various ways: There is a full-text search. It can also be filtered, for example by techniques, materials, or people.
(wpl)
