Art Up Your Tab: heritage in your browser
Art Up Your Tab with curated artworks from the inspiring collection of Europeana!
Most people will see just a blank screen when they open a new tab or window in their browser. This could be much more interesting! That’s why Kennisland, Studio Parkers and Sara Kolster have developed a plug-in for the Chrome browser that shows you enticing, inspiring paintings or photographs from the rich collection of Europeana in new tabs.
The cat at play, Henriette Ronner, Rijksmuseum, Public Domain
The Chrome browser extension Art Up Your Tab brings you full-screen artworks from a frequently refreshed pool of carefully selected images that will pause your busy life for a brief moment and spark your imagination.
The first version of Art Up Your Tab focuses on Dutch heritage institutions in Europeana Collections.
Exploring more
All images are presented in full screen, along with information about the background and context of the work, the authors, the institution and the terms of use. You can even download the image directly in high resolution for reuse or share it with others. You can also click through to the page about this specific work on Europeana Collections.
Viewing heritage made easy
Art Up Your Tab is designed to inspire, surprise, inform and get internet users acquainted with European heritage in the familiar surroundings of their browser – without additional time or effort. This way, cultural heritage is integrated in everyday activities and digital heritage collections are even more visible.
Before you know it, you’ll be browsing beautiful images from Europeana for half an hour while you just wanted to open a new tab!
Install Art Up Your Tab Chrome extension
Art Up Your Tab is made possible with support from the Network Digital Heritage.
