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This cultural search engine will give you access to artworks from several museum collections.
Type a keyword, for example: Derain, calligraphy, or 1867.

Collections

Artchive.com (>3,000 objects)

Rijksmuseum.nl (>16,000 objects)

Volkenkunde.nl (>10,000 objects)

Tropenmuseum.nl (>78,000 objects)

Bibliopolis.nl (>1,600 objects)

Vocabularies and thesauri

Getty AAT (>31.000)

Getty ULAN (>130.000)

Getty TGN (>890.000)

SVCN (Dutch ethnology, >11.000)

Princeton Wordnet (>115.000)

Help

Welcome to our semantic search demonstrator

You are currently on the opening page of the demonstrator. This page shows an overview of the art and ethnographic collections you can explore, and of the vocabularies that are used to describe the objects in these collections.

The keyword search facility allows you to type in any word and find related artworks.

For example, for artworks related to the Fauvist painter Andre Derain, try typing the keyword "Derain" in the text box and press the search button. Alternatively, for ethnographic artefacts related to the period of the Japanese Togukawa shogunate try the keyword "Tokugawa" and hit search.