Many of the scientific antiquities and papers of the UK end up at the Royal Society Library. Brady Haran has a nice video series named Objectivity[1] about objects in the archives done with their head librarian, Keith Moore[2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwKon9qMt5YLVgQt1tvJKg

[2]: https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/author/kei...