Biodiversity Heritage Library
biodiversitylibrary.org
Every natural history book, scanned by the world's museums
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India's national collections, digitised into one place
indianculture.gov.in
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Run by the Ministry of Culture, this pulls holdings from national museums, archives and libraries into a single site: rare books, manuscripts, photograph archives, textiles, musical instruments, historic gazetteers and regional recipes. Material is grouped by theme and by state rather than by which institution happens to hold it.
Organising objects by region instead of by owning institution means the textiles, food and architecture of one state can be followed in a single sitting.
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Journey through India's heritage sites, monuments, and living traditions.
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Picked for a shared category and overlapping vibe, not for popularity.
biodiversitylibrary.org
Every natural history book, scanned by the world's museums
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A hundred thousand old maps, zoomable to the street
rekhta.org
The largest Urdu poetry archive, readable in three scripts
rijksmuseum.nl
Download a Vermeer at a resolution you can actually print
si.edu
Millions of museum objects, released with no restrictions
themarginalian.org
Two decades of one person reading and taking notes