Museum Resources: Digital Collection Catalogues

Museums throughout Europe house the most important objects studied by scholars active in Ancient Germanic studies. As of 2021, many larger museums in the region make their collections available to the public for free online. The present resource consists of a list of museum websites that contain such catalogues.

Most of the digital collections catalogues listed here are incomplete and/or lack photographs of much of their catalogue entries. Additionally, some extremely important collections–such as the Römisch-Germanisches Museum and the Museum für Archäologie Schloss Gottorf—do not make digital catalogues available to the public at the time of writing while other museums that undoubtedly administer collections important to the field, such as the National Museum of the History of Ukraine, are very difficult to approach.

Nonetheless, these collections are invaluable not only for scholars in the field but also for artists and enthusiasts interested in Ancient Germanic studies. Please note that this list is non-comprehensive and that Mimisbrunnr.info intends to expand and update it as time allows.