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How to search the County Council Museums database on DSH
Welcome to the Shropshire Museums Online Database page. Here you will find out all about the Museums database.
What the museums database contains
The museums database contains records item by item for the following object collections:
Archaeology
Costumes
Decorative
Ethnography
Fine Art
Geology
Natural Science
Numismatics
Social History
2 Dimensional works
Using this website to find Museum records
Image of the Search window
This website has regular updates of museum records and you can search for records that might interest you.
To run a search simply use the search window at the top of the website. Within this list records will appear that match your key word or if you know it the museum number you can type that in.
List of matching records
This is the icon that denotes a database record in a search.
Just like google the search engine will return relevant content on the website. These will include webpages and database records.
A database record can be discerned by the icon at the side. simple click on the blue link and the record will open up.
Coming Soon the DSH database search
In November it will be possible to search across any of the databases on line and list their contents on a dedicated database search page. You will also be able to refine your search by different criteria such as type, date and place.
It will also be possible to view the data in different formats such as lists. It will also be possible to see on any search return what type of record has matched your keyword search.