Museum of the History of Science Collections Database

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.

collections database: illustrated database of the museums collection

Field Search

Welcome to the Museum of the History of Science collections’ live search page. The database holds information about and photos of objects in the collection. There are approximately 16977 museum object records available online.

This version of our online database was launched in July 2008 and is continuously being updated. Further details can be found on the help page. If you have any comments, please email webmaster@mhs.ox.ac.uk.

Enter any terms in the boxes below and click on the "Search" button. For other search types, select one of the options beneath the search box.

Field Search on Catalogue Records

Inventory No		e.g. 74444
Title
Creation Date		e.g. c. 1850 or 18th century
Creator Name
Primary Inscription
Provenance
Collection Group
Brief Description		e.g. brass, green
Material
Accession Number		e.g. 1998-7 or 1913
Other No
Records per page

List works only with images

Basic Search | Advanced Search | Field Search

There are a number of different ways to search the collections database:

The basic search is a simple keyword search of the key fields in the museum’s collections database.
The advanced search is similar to the basic search but allows for more complex queries.
The field search allows searches which are targetted on one or more of the key database fields.

Page last updated: 22/04/2009 13:12 (BST)