This year's Birgit Nilsson Prize - worth $1m - was awarded to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. It was bestowed upon them at a ceremony in Stockholm last week - read our Editor's blog about the Prize and the presentation - when the orchestra also announced that the money would be spent on its archive. Containing programmes of 7000 concerts, plus 25-30,000 photographs and an enormous amount of letters from the likes of Bruckner and Brahms, the VPO aims to make its history more accessible for researchers, including digitising much of it.

You can see some of the documents in our online gallery, click the first image above to launch the gallery.