A card-index cabinet in Mons, the Rijksmuseum’s free downloads, Ansel Adams’ national-park murals. Things that could have stayed behind glass and didn’t.
Decades of Foucault's own recorded lectures, gathered in one place
→ openculture.com
PS1 and N64 game models you can spin in the browser
→ library.pardallgames.com
Complete 1997-2007 archive of the British weekly tech-and-snark links newsletter
→ ntk.net
A one-of-a-kind 1692 watercolour manual, scanned in full
→ bibliotheque-numerique.citedulivre-aix.com
Korean Zen teachings printed in 1377, scanned page by page at the BnF
→ gallica.bnf.fr
Browse three centuries of digitised newspapers, 1730s through the 1960s
→ snewpapers.com
3,500 pages of Leonardo's manuscripts reunited digitally
→ teche.museogalileo.it
Manuscripts split for 400 years, now browsable together online
→ teche.museogalileo.it
840,000 works from the Rijksmuseum, free to download and free to cut up
→ rijksmuseum.nl
Two thousand years of ideas, one concept at a time, in 300 words
→ ecc.historyofwomenphilosophers.org
Tap any Greek word and the ten-year voyage explains itself
→ georgemasto.com
226 photographs for a mural the war cancelled, free at full size
→ openculture.com
A 2nd-century Iliad papyrus, now readable at full resolution
→ openculture.com
Stewart Brand's six-part series, scored by Brian Eno, free to watch
→ openculture.com