Search for images at Natural History Museum Picture Library

Keyword Search:

By entering a keyword or keywords, you may use one or more keywords to define a search using the words: and, or, not as separators.

To narrow a search - Use: and, not.
mountain and river - will return images that contain both mountains and rivers.
mountain not river - will return images that contain only mountains without rivers.

To expand a search - Use: or
mountain or river - will return images that contain either mountains or rivers or both.

Using Filters in a Keyword Search:

Within Results - When checked, this will add the new keyword with the previous keyword search.

Filter by Colour - This will show images that are Colour or Black and White (B&W).

Filter by Type - Photographs, illustrations, portrait, archive, fossils, specimens, SEM

Item ID Search:

If you know the image ID number, enter number in the search box to view the image.

You may enter one or more item ID to do a search. To search for multiple item ID's, separate them with commas.

Lightboxes:

You can create personal lightboxes to store and email items. You add items to a lightbox as you view a search result or a preview, and add the items that may fit your project.

Your lightboxes are kept for in indefinite period of time unless you delete them. You may have as many lightboxes as you wish, and each lightbox can have an unlimited number of items.

When you email a lightbox, the recipient doesn't have to be registered to view your lightbox.

Advanced Lightbox:

The Advanced Lightbox allows you to rearrange images in a lightbox, move/copy images from a lightbox to a lightbox, add a note to each image in a lightbox, and add a comment to a lightbox.