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r/MedievalCreatures↗

Weird art wrought in ages past

Not just medieval! We welcome Prehistoric, Ancient, Renaissance, Victorian, and weird art dated up to the 1800s. If it’s old and strange, it belongs here!

104k subscribers64 posts / mo in Sep 202617 authors / mosince 2023

r/MedievalCreatures has 104k members (+32% over the last 12 months). It gets about 64 posts a month from 17 people. Top topics: Old Masters Portraits, Medieval Manuscripts and Creature Art.

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+32%in 12 months · +3.4% in 3 months · +0.6% in 1 month
Oct 2026104k
Growing104k subscribers
Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−39%vs Sep 2025 · +66% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202664
QuieterPeaked at 138 in May 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/MedievalCreatures

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Old Masters Portraits4.2%
  2. Medieval Manuscripts2.2%
  3. Creature Art1.5%
  4. Baroque and Religious Art1.0%
  5. Old Books & Literature1.0%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. BnF - Site institutionnel
  2. Getty Center
  3. Wikimedia
  4. The British Library
  5. Metmuseum

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research