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The French national library's digital collection — manuscripts, maps, newspapers and photographs, millions of items deep.
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Gallica sits in Free Libraries under Learn, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Public-domain books, scanned art, academic archives and collections built by people who cared far too much about one subject. Bring time.
Yes. Gallica is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Gallica without signing up for anything.
Yes. Gallica works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
Gigapixel scans from two thousand museums, plus the experiments that let you find your own face in a painting.
Seventeen million scanned volumes from research libraries, with full-text search running across the entire lot.
Books, films, software, concerts and the web itself, archived at a scale no other institution has come close to.
A vast and aggressively plain archive of religious and mythological texts, essentially unchanged since the old web.
Walks you through rebuilding classic algorithmic pieces — tiled lines, Joy Division, cubic disarray — one step at a time.
A free flight simulator in the browser using satellite terrain for the entire planet, with real air traffic overhead.
Curated wall of the best-designed sites on the internet, filterable by type and updated relentlessly.
Full-disc satellite imagery of the Americas straight from the GOES satellites, refreshed every few minutes at absurd resolution.
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