Archive of archives

Edited: 20 Jan 2026

The Archive of archives is a growing collection of other material libraries from around the world that are freely available. Together, they represent a broad collection of knowledge about sustainable materials, offering access to ingredients, recipes, making tutorials, and documentation from diverse practices.


A Better Source

Color Amazonia

EMMy - Ecological Material Mini Library

Research Group Circular Built Environment, RWTH Aachen University

Online location
https://emmy.rb.rwth-aachen.de/en/

ETH Materials Hub (MATHUB), part of Material-Archiv

ETH Zurich

Physical location
Zürich, Switzerland (177 km)

Online location
https://ethz.ch/en/campus/getting-to-know/learning-and-working/collections-and-archives/eth-materials-hub.html

Future Materials Bank

Jan van Eyck Academie

Physical location
Maastricht, The Netherlands (281 km)

Online location
https://www.futurematerialsbank.com

Goods Index

Goods Oslo

Online location
https://index.goods.no/

Institute of Making Materials Library

University College London

Physical location
London (UCL Bloomsbury Campus), United Kingdom (667 km)

London (UCL East), United Kingdom (659 km)

Online location
https://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/materials-library/library

KIT Material Library, part of Material Library of German Universities MDH

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Physical location
Karlsruhe, Germany (2.5 km)

Online location
https://nb.ieb.kit.edu/

Laboratorium

KASK & Conservatorium

Physical location
Ghent, Belgium (403 km)

Online location
http://laboratorium.bio/database.html

MaterialDistrict Materials

MaterialDistrict

Online location
https://materialdistrict.com/

Materiom Materials Database

Materiom

Online location
https://materiom.org/

Phytophilia

Sara Martinsen

Online location
https://www.phytophilia.dk/library-index

Sitterwerk Werkstoffarchiv, part of Material-Archiv

Stiftung Sitterwerk

Physical location
St. Gallen, Switzerland (190 km)

Online location
https://www.sitterwerk-katalog.ch/

Syntropic Materials

Eugenia Morpurgo

Online location
https://syntropicmaterials.eumo.it/library

Waste Not

Michelle Mattar

Online location
https://wastenot.world/

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