Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten - Institut néerlandais du Proche-Orient
Last updated: 9 Jun 2026
De Liagre Böhl collection
NINO is the owner of approximately 3,000 cuneiform tablets of Sumerian and Babylonian/Assyrian origin, the largest collection of its kind in the Netherlands. The collection was brought together in the 1920s and 1930s by F.M.Th. de Liagre Böhl, Professor of Assyriology at Leiden University and Co-Director of NINO 1939...
NINO owns an interesting and old collection of hundreds of glass slides, formerly used for projection. They date mostly from the 1920’s to 1950’s. With additional funding by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichting, NINO was able in 2017 to make the most important part available...
The Scholten Photographic Collection comprises ca. 22,000 original photographs that Frank Scholten took on his travels through the Middle East in 1920-1923. The images have been digitised and are available in open access.
