Digital treasure trove
African online digital library
AODL is an open-access digital library containing materials relating to African cultural heritage, created by Michigan State University in collaboration with museums, archives, academics and communities around the world.
AIATSIS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)
A growing collection of over 1 million digital resources, including language, audio, photos, videos and books, all dedicated to the culture and history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library)
The world’s largest digital library providing open access to literature and archives on biodiversity. The BHL is revolutionising global research by offering free, worldwide access to knowledge about life on Earth.
Conciliation Resources Learning Hub
The Conciliation Resources Learning Hub contains more than 1,500 resources to explore. We share lessons from peace processes across the globe and use past experience to shape solutions for the future.
Deutschlands Kulturerbe digital
Paintings, books, musical works, sculptures, films, photographs, documents, architectural monuments and many other cultural artefacts: the German Digital Library gives you access to Germany’s digitised cultural and academic heritage.
Endangered Archives Programme (British Library Digital Collections)
The Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) digitises archives around the world that are at risk of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. It contains over seven million images and 25,000 audio tracks. The types of archives digitised to date include rare printed sources, manuscripts, visual material and audio recordings.
MAVCOR (Center for the Study of Visual and Material Cultures of Religion)
Includes an open-access peer-reviewed journal and a object repository.
MCN Guide to Virtual Museums
Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections
Oceania Digital Collection
This collection, which consists mainly of the Tuzin Archive of Melanesian Anthropology, uses 20th-century photographs, dissertations and films to shed light on aspects of the vibrant cultures and diverse peoples of the Pacific Islands.
PAESE-Verbunddatenbank
The PAESE joint database brings together collections of artefacts from the State Museum of Hanover, the Ethnological Collection of Georg-August University of Göttingen, the State Museum of Nature and Man in Oldenburg, the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, the Municipal Museum of Braunschweig, and the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society in Lower Saxony in Hermannsburg, which are participating in the project provenance research in non-European collections and ethnology in Lower Saxony. Since 2022, this work has been continued by the Lower Saxony Provenance Research Network, drawing on contributions from this and other institutions in Lower Saxony that conduct research into collection items from colonial contexts.
Philippine eLib
More than a million Bibliographic records, 25 million pages of Philippine materials, 29.000 full-text journals - all in one source. The Philippine eLib is a collaborative project of the National Library of the Philippines (NLP), University of the Philippines (UP), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Agriculture (DA), and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
Smithonian National Museum of Natural History
Department of Anthropology Collections and Archives
World Digital Library (WDL)
The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and in collaboration with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions and international organisations from around the world. The WDL makes significant primary materials from all countries and cultures available online, free of charge and in multiple languages.
World History Commons
World History Commons is a free digital resource offering high-quality, peer-reviewed content on world and global history for teachers, academics and students.