Search collection

This search page enables you to see around 70,000 objects from the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. The database is still expanding and contains objects from all sections of the museum’s collection: Ancient Egypt, the Classical World (Greeks, Romans, Etruscans), the ancient Near East and the early Netherlands (up to 1600 AD).

• Collection data and images from the National Museum of Antiquities are freely available for re-use by developers under a Creative Commons license. Object descriptions (metadata) are available under a CC0 licence. The images (content) are made available under a CC BY licence.
• The database is only available in Dutch. You will need to search using Dutch keywords.
• You can also search using part of a word. Type the letters in the box ‘zoeken’ and add an asterisk: e.g. mum*
• The texts derive from a scientific register and are therefore most accessible to readers with some knowledge of the subject. Some texts, or parts of texts, are written in English.