The supply of visual material brought together on Het Geheugen van Nederland is as rich and varied as the quality of the presentation and the images is high. Created under the aegis of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, this vast database comprises 580,000 images from 107 collections in 90 institutions, ranging from the Museum Volkenkunde and the Prentenkabinet in Leiden to the Centraal Museum Utrecht and the British Library. The result is a supra-institutional collection that constitutes, as its name suggests, a collective “Memory of the Netherlands.” Visitors can search by theme, sub-theme, and collection (space & environment -> landscape & architecture ->photographs of monuments, for example), visit the attractive web exhibitions, or use the full-text search function. Notable collections include views of exhibitions organized at the Centraal Museum Utrecht 1938-2008 (3,750 objects), the Rietveld Schröder Archives (5,618 objects, and archaeological finds from the Netherlands (9,844 objects).
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Notice révisée le 09/08/2013