Searching made simple! Just enter your search term, for example a keyword, a name, or a location, in the search field. The real-time search immediately gives you initial results as you type. Don’t worry about minor typos; they won't disrupt the search. You can refine your search results by entering additional search terms and applying filters.

If you prefer to browse instead, select specific filters for topics, institutions, media or other categories to peruse a selection of interesting digital objects.

Would you prefer to be inspired? Browse through our search suggestions.

Tip: Use search operators

There are two easy ways to narrow your search:

Quotation marks “ ”: If you put quotation marks around words or phrases, no corrections will be made, and the search will only show results that contain the exact phrase you are looking for.

Example search for a whole phrase: 
“Hund und Katze”

Minus - : If you place a minus sign in front of a word, this word is deliberately excluded from the search results. You can refine your search by entering your keywords and adding a “-” to the word you wish to exclude.

Example search: 
Katze -Löwe (which searches for “Katze”, but not for “Löwe”)

Filters help you to find what you are looking for even more quickly and to narrow your search results. You can use filters to specify the period of an object, the artist and whether you are allowed to use the image or object. You can also filter by media such as paintings, photographs or graphic designs (in German: Gemälde, Fotografien, Grafiken). The filter categories are derived from the descriptive information (metadata) that is displayed together with the objects.

A quick overview of the filters in Kulturpool:

General data

Institution: Here you can select the institutions whose objects you would like to display.

Date: You can limit the search to a specific period in which the object was created using the slider, or by entering the year.

Is a part of: Filter by collections or projects of the institutions, such as the “Textiles and Carpets” collection of the MAK or the Risch-Lau photo collection of the Vorarlberg State Library.

Subject: Filter the objects according to the topics specified by the individual institutions.

Object type: Select the type of original object, such as postcard, photo, slide film or coin.

Medium: Filter by the material of the physical object, such as porcelain, silk, paper and many more.

Creator: Filter the results by the person who created the cultural heritage object.

Publisher: Select the person or organisation that published the object and in some cases also created the digital object.

Media data

The media data describes the digital object of the cultural heritage object, not the cultural object itself.

Usage rights: Find out how you are allowed to use the digital object. Are you allowed to edit it, share it, or use it in any other way? The copyright and licence details in the “Usage Rights” filter provide information on the permitted types of use.

Can I use it? Filter digital objects according to possible further use. The three options “Yes”, “Yes, with conditions” and “Maybe, with permission” condense the long list of possible usage rights in a simple, brief and clear manner.

Media type: Choose from five media types: The digital objects are divided into images, text, video, sound, or 3D.

You can sort your search result

• By relevance of content,
• Alphabetically by title,
• Alphabetically by institution, or
• Chronologically by period.

Sorting the search results helps you to find the digitised material you are looking for more quickly and efficiently.

If you want a quick overview, one click will show you the tile view which displays many images at the same time.