Welcome to the Museum of the History of Science collections’ Field search page. Details on using these search pages can be found on the help page. If you have any comments, please email webmaster@mhs.ox.ac.uk.

Enter any terms in the boxes below and click on the “Search” button. For other search types, select one of the options beneath the search box.

Basic Search | Advanced Search | Field Search

There are a number of different ways to search the collections database:

• The basic search is a simple keyword search of the key fields in the museum’s collections database.
• The advanced search is similar to the basic search but allows for more complex queries.
• The field search allows searches which are targeted on one or more of the key database fields.