Clipping from Revista Mundo Gráfico of 24 April 1912 (via Biblioteca Digital Memoria de Madrid, CC-BY-NC) In the early morning of 15 April 1912, one of the...
Still from the 11-11: Memories Retold launch trailer. Source. When thinking of a first world war game, some images immediately come to mind: huge...
This week Europeana celebrates its tenth birthday. Since 2008, we’ve been publishing, sharing and celebrating amazing cultural heritage online. To mark the...
In France, the important development of including literature in the press began with the launch of ‘ La Presse ‘ in 1836 by Emile de Girardin . He...
A true writer-journalist, Emile Zola successfully managed both activities for about 20 years, at first out of financial necessity before he became a...
If you ever visit the Netherlands, perhaps you’ll stay at the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam or Hotel New York in Rotterdam. These two hotels – still...
Living in bustling cities we often tend to forget about nature, yet it is all around us and in many ways. Some of us might wake up in the morning to the...
How do we know what Europe’s first printed book was? Until the 18th century this question was open to speculation.15th-century printed books usually have no...
Ross MacFarlane is a Research Development Specialist at London’s Wellcome Collection , a free museum and library exploring health, life and our place in the...
Home is where we are safe. Home is where our loved ones are. When that home becomes unsafe, is it still home? If we move away from our loved ones, where is...
For Protestant and Catholic communities of the past, learning the basics of faith and the basics of reading went quite naturally hand in hand. But were all...
For the #SalonEuropa blog parade, the curatorial team at European Fashion Heritage Association looks at how fashion plates have created and imagined European...
Millions of postcards circulated during the First World War and influenced public opinion. It is not surprising that something as ordinary as a postcard was...
Your favourite GIF-making competition is back! For the fifth time, from 1 – 31 October, all GIF-makers, cultural heritage enthusiasts and lovers of the...
No literary figure has stood the test of time quite like King Arthur . His story has inspired people across Europe for centuries. King Arthur: a Legendary...
Europeana Migration brings together digital collections dedicated to the theme of migration to, from and within Europe, sourced from both cultural heritage...
It was in January 2014 during our second series of Europeana 1914-1918 collection days in Berlin that a very special and unique contribution to our project...
This poem about living and loving in medieval courts was both very popular and controversial in the late Middle Ages and throughout the Renaissance. ...
Many noteworthy authors were put on the Index librorum prohibitorum because their works were seen to cause religious, political and moral controversies. ...
Specimens of Calligraphy, Inglis, Esther; University of Edinburgh, CC BY On September 8, International Literacy Day , established by UNESCO, is celebrated...
If your social media feed is anything like mine, this week it’s been full of photographs of children dressed in school uniforms and big grins, ready for...
The blog is a part of the Rise of Literacy project , where we take you on an exploration of literacy in Europe thanks to the digital preservation of precious...
The invention of printing in the middle of the 15th century gave rise to the cross-cultural flow of texts throughout Europe. But complex webs of connections...
If you want to know what was it like to live in the Florence of 1400, to discover how the monks of Novacella Monastery begun to produce wine or to trace the...
Community is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as: ‘a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common’. But what...
News is news, whether it appears in tabloids, broadsheets, newsbooks or the popular Berliner format. The reader is supposed to focus on the content and not...
Our collection day events are a great opportunity to share your migration story. Sharing your story, or the story of your family or community, means it is...
The time of the year, usually in the summer, when not much is happening in the politics is called silly season in English. Due to a lack of newsworthy events...
Did you know that the earliest known list of recommended and banned books dates from about 496? It was issued by Pope Gelasius I . Printed lists of banned...
Today, the global refugee crisis is a hot topic, all over the news and debated about in society. What is to be changed about the current situation? Who is...
As long as there have been babies, which is quite a long time, there’s been breastfeeding. This week is World Breastfeeding Week – coordinated by the...
1. Yorkshire is the biggest county in England An annotated version of Map of England & Wales showing population, 1700s. Wellcome Collection, CC BY ...
Books didn’t always have title pages! The title page only developed gradually over the 15 th and 16 th centuries. Before that time, different methods were...
Three Butterflies by Herman Henstenburgh, c.1683 – c.1726, Rijksmuseum, public domain ‘The universe is transformation, life is opinion.’ Marcus...
The Deutsches Historiches Museum #DHMMeer in Berlin is running a Europe and the sea blog parade from 20-25 July 2018, asking people to share posts on the...
At the end of World War I, the geo-political landscape of Europe changed dramatically. Following the Treaty of Versailles several new nations emerged, among...
Welcome to the World Cup of Art! The matches are between the artworks related to countries playing in the FIFA World Cup, available on Europeana. And you can...
On the Anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the highlight of LGBT+ pride month 2018, we dive into Wellcome Collection’s rich stores of queer heritage and take...
Spanish gastarbeiders De Egge te Brunssum, 1963, Historisch centrum Limburg, CC BY-SA. During the 1970s, Spanish gastarbeiders made up some 35,000 of the...
When we asked people to share their stories and symbolic objects of migration, the responses submitted could be largely separated into two categories: those...
Guest blog written by Fabian & Tatjana Vendrig ( Dutch and Serbian language versions below) “The bread you sent, every Serb took it, they crossed...
We have recently begun collecting personal stories from people all across Europe relating to migration. Our new short blog series, Love across borders , is...
View through barred windows of the internment building from Ellis Island to the skyscrapers of New York, ca. 1932 (CC0) In Austria, the year 2018 is an...
The shape of the text has influenced how, what and why we read. This is the first blog of the Rise of Literacy project , where we take you from papyri to...
Detail of a caricature of Richard Wagner conducting, Miethke & Wawra, after Gust. Gaul (public domain, The Rijksmuseum) When it comes to the life and...
We have recently begun collecting personal stories from people all across Europe relating to migration, following on from our successful Europeana 1914-1918...
Throughout 2018, the European Year of Cultural Heritage, Europeana, with partner museums, galleries, libraries and archives across Europe, are running a...
We have recently begun collecting personal stories from people all across Europe relating to migration, following on from our successful Europeana 1914-1918...
Group portrait of Afghan men and boys. John Burke. Rijksmuseum, public domain The past few years have witnessed a renewed interest in vintage and vernacular...
This month’s focus of the Europeana 1914-1918 Centenary Tour is on Luxembourg. In our dedicated gallery , a selection of images depicting various aspects of...
We have recently begun collecting personal stories from people all across Europe relating to migration, following on from our successful Europeana 1914-1918...
We have recently begun collecting personal stories from people all across Europe relating to migration. Our new short blog series, Love across borders , is...
During our campaigns like Europeana Migration and Europeana 1914-1918 , we bring a digital perspective to our Collection Days with partner institutions all...
In the early 18th century, London was the eldorado for musicians, offering fame and fortune to anyone who had something new or exclusive to boast. Foreign...
In advance of the 15th annual Silent Movie Festival , Katarzyna Wajda from National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute, introduces the cinematic life of...
Percy Grainger and Nina Grieg at the piano (Bergen Library, no known rights restrictions) This blog tells the story of how digitisation for cultural...
Today, Manuele Buono, of AEDEKA srl in Italy, talks about a photograph taken on board a ship arriving at Ellis Island in the early 20th century. The deck of...
We have recently begun collecting personal stories from people all across Europe relating to migration, following on from our successful Europeana 1914-1918...
We all have objects and tales that tell stories of where we’ve come from and what’s shaped our lives. For many of us, that involves our family’s stories of...
Auberive 1916 – Un puits en tranchée Alphonse Robine, Europeana 1914-1918 / Madame Nicole Robine, CC BY-SA We are delighted to announce the launch of...
Today, Pierre-Edouard Barrault, Data Ingestion Specialist at Europeana and keen photography enthusiast , talks about a striking photo taken in Amsterdam at...
Find your crayons. Sharpen your coloured pencils. Arrange your felt pens. #ColorOurCollections is back! #ColorOurCollections is a week-long colouring fest...
Art Blakey, drummer and leader of the Jazz Messenger, at the Umeå jazz festival in 1979. Riksantikvarieämbetet, CC BY “If you have to ask what jazz...
As the year draws to a close, we look back on the past twelve months and celebrate five significant moments for Europeana Art. In chronological order: 1....
With 2017 coming to a close, it’s time to look at what you’ve been searching for this year on Europeana Collections. Since January, there have been...
On this International Migrants’ Day, Sofie Taes, musicologist & co-curator of the Europeana Photography Collection for PHOTOCONSORTIUM/KU Leuven , zooms...
A fishing boat at sea. From “La pêche traditionnelle varoise dans les années 1970” | Henri-Paul Brémondy In December, the Centre national de la...
Pêcheur avec filet de pêche sur un bateau – Photographie en lien avec le corpus sonore “La pêche traditionnelle varoise dans les années...
Dear GIF-makers and GIF-lovers! Time to reveal the winners of GIF IT UP 2017! Huge thank you to all the participants! It was a very tight competition and we...
The phonoliszt violina, by Hupfeld – Rönisch (from the Musée de la Musique Mécanique, CC BY-NC-SA) We are delighted to announce the launch of the new...
15 November is #LoveTheatreDay. So here are five stunning settings to put on your cultural must-visit list. What’s your favourite theatre? Tell us...
Chaque mois, Europeana Music est animée par un invité afin de mettre en valeur la grande variété de musique disponible surEuropeana. En ce mois de novembre,...
Each month, we invite a guest to write about a musical subject and highlight some of the material on Europeana Music. For the month of November, the...
It’s UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage today, a day to highlight the importance of preserving both sound and video heritage material. ...
You have one more week left to participate in GIF IT UP. If you think it’s not enough time, read on and see how quickly you can create a GIF using a series of...
Today we’ll learn how to make an animated GIF by playing with colours. The best material for this kind of GIF will include things that blink or go...
It happens about twice a year, and when it does, you’d better lock yourself in the house and wait until dawn. Or anything could happen to you. Better safe...
Last week we showed how to make a GIF from a vintage video. Today, we will show you how to boost artworks with effects and stickers available on GIPHY. Go...
Each month, Europeana Music invites a guest curator to talk about a musical subject and highlight some of the material on Europeana Music. For the month of...
Always wanted to make an animated GIF, but didn’t know how? We have something for you! In the coming weeks, we will be showing some easy GIF-making techniques...
Yes, it’s already this time of year… Time for the fourth edition of GIF IT UP! From 1 – 31 October , all GIF-makers, cultural heritage...
In the beginning of July, we have invited you to show us how the places featured on the vintage postcards from our Picture This! exhibition look nowadays. ...
Today we welcome the wonderful collections of the Mauritshuis into Europeana, published in high-resolution and released freely into the public domain for the...
Europeana Collections can now be navigated in 4 more languages: Czech , Irish , Slovak and Slovenian . These new languages now means that Europeana...
In April, we announced that Art Up Your Tab was available as an extension for the Chrome internet browser. Now, we’re pleased to say it’s also...
Chaque mois, Europeana Music est animé par un contriibuteur invité afin de mettre en valeur la grande variété de musique disponible dans Europeana. Ce...
Every month, Europeana Music is curated by a guest contributor, highlighting the wide variety of music that exists in Europeana. This month, Europeana Music...
Аутори: Фабиан и Татјана Вендриг На углу холандског реформисаног гробља у Гардерену, тик уз шумовит предео Велуве регије у Холандији, стоји споменик у знак...
Gastblog geschreven door Tanja & Fabian Vendrig In een hoek op de gereformeerde begraafplaats te Garderen, op de rand van de bosrijke Veluwe in midden...
Guest blog by Fabian & Tatjana Vendrig (also available in Dutch and Serbian language version) In a corner of the Dutch Reformed cemetery in Garderen, on...
Every month, Europeana Music invites a guest curator to look at a particular area of music. This month, our guest is Greg Markus from Netherlands Institute...
Europeana 1914-1918 officially re-launches as a Europeana thematic collection today with personal stories, films and historical material about World War I...
John Topham was a British documentary photographer who captured a changing Britain. Today, PHOTOCONSORTIUM’s Fred Truyen introduces us to Topham’s...
Over the past few months, we’ve been celebrating Art Nouveau style in a special season on Europeana Art . Thanks to the fabulous collections and contributions...
Europeana Photography , our latest thematic collection, features over 2 million images from the first 100 years of photography. The collection is curated by...
In this guest post for Europeana’s Art Nouveau season, Dr. Piotr Kopszak, Curator at the National Museum of Warsaw, tells us about the artist Władysław...
Do you like Europeana 1914-1918 ? Have you already been involved in a collection day, taken part in a transcribathon , or are you interested in discovering...
One of the Art Nouveau highlights of the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris were the architectural ceramics of French manufacturer Alexandre Bigot. Housed in a...
Today, we’re proud to launch Europeana Photography , our latest thematic collection. Photography lovers and researchers can explore more than 2 million...
One of the Art Nouveau highlights of the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris were the architectural ceramics of French manufacturer Alexandre Bigot. Housed in a...
In this guest post for Art Nouveau season, Friederike Fankhänel of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) introduces a fascinating new web journal...
In collaboration with crowdfunding platform Goteo , we recently launched a match funding call that offers 10,000 EUR to support projects using digital...
From today on Europeana Fashion , fashions curators, academics, students and enthusiasts can discover and explore more than a million fashion images...
Each month, Europeana Music examines a particular theme from the world of music. For the month of May, Gabriele Fröschl from the Österreichische Mediathek...
In this Art Nouveau season guest post, Andreia Lourenço of Portugal’s Aveiro City Museum takes us on a guided tour of Aveiro’s finest Art Nouveau...
In today’s #ArtNouveauSeason guest post, Francesc Quílez, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya , describes how...
For the month of April, Europeana Music is focusing on the beginning of spring. Or more accurately, the end of winter. Or more accurately still, the end of...
With more than 54 millions objects to find in Europeana Collections, there’s a lot to explore. We regularly feature the stories of these objects –...
In today’s #ArtNouveauSeason guest post, Marie Vítková of the National Museum in Prague tells us the story of how Alphonse Mucha had his artistic...
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...
This World Poetry Day (21 March), we are inviting you to join a month long social media salute to poetry from across Europe. From the Romantics to War poetry...
In this week’s Art Nouveau season guest post, Júlia Katona, Head of Collection at Budapest’s Schola Graphidis Art Collection , highlights the...
This week’s guest post for our Art Nouveau season comes from Lukáš Štepanovský of the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava. Martin Benka After the...
Ask someone to name five artists and responses are likely to include famous European names such as Picasso, van Gogh, Monet, da Vinci — all male artists. Ask...
Today’s Art Nouveau season guest post from one of the world’s leading collections of glass, Düsseldorf’s Glasmuseum Hentrich . Dr. Dedo von...
Today’s Art Nouveau season guest post comes from Anne-Lise Alleaume of Réseau Art Nouveau Network What you call Art Nouveau depends on where you come...
You can easily get lost among over 53 million cultural heritage objects we display in Europeana. That is why, in this series we hand-pick some of the...
Today we are happy to announce the launch of Art Nouveau season on Europeana Art , running from now until the end of May. During the season we’ll explore the...
Following last year’s inspiring Europeana Colouring Book for Grown-ups , we’re taking part in #ColorOurCollections again this year. ...
This month, we take a look at musical instruments of Africa. These are well represented on Europeana Music , thanks to the wide and varied records from...
A lost World War One memorial plaque – dedicated to fireman Thomas McGarry who died in the sinking of the HMS Laurentic in 1917 – has been...
Verdi as a composer, Verdi and the Italian Risorgimento, Verdi as a farmer, Verdi in the movies, Verdi as national icon… How many performers can boast such a...
William Shakespeare may have written that all the world’s a stage, but today on #LoveTheatreDay , all Europeana is a stage. We’ve searched our...
It’s time to celebrate — we’ve reached 10K followers on Pinterest! In just one year we doubled our followers to 10,000 with users from all over...
If someone is asked today, which operas of Antonio Salieri he or she knows, most of them will not come up with an answer, which is not surprising. The operas...
#GIFitUP is about creating #GIFs from public domain and openly licensed material available in digital libraries around the world. It is a great opportunity to...
Guest post by Clare Gibson, of The Army Children Archive (TACA) What Europe’s children went through during the First World War is often overlooked by...
Notation can be seen as the foundation of the creative output in classical music. Music autographs, manuscripts and sketches manage to give an insight into...
After successful runs in 2014 and 2015, GIF IT UP returns for its third year, and Europeana joins in again with our best open collections – see below! GIF IT...
This blog post was originally released on the Europeana Sounds blog. After a nice journey through Europeana Sounds items related to goats , let’s...
It’s time again to share our latest additions! Every day we are adding more objects from museums, libraries, galleries and archives across Europe. So...
While visiting the various regions of France, one might wonder what he might have heard in those places a century ago. [Vendée] : [dessin] / [Bergeron] ,...
Among the great many cultural connections between Ireland and Scotland, the mutual influence of each nation’s musical and singing traditions on the other is...
Irish people are often noted for their friendliness and sociability. We relish the opportunity to get together, chat, sing, dance, make music and enjoy...
The 2016 Olympic Games came to a close last night in Rio de Janeiro with an energetic closing ceremony. 2016’s Games saw history being made –...
“What are men to rocks and mountains?” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Human exploration of and travel through mountains dates back millennia. It’s...
In Europeana, you will find over 53 million artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe. But our collections cover more continents than...
Work songs were commonplace in Scotland for hundreds of years and, whatever the activity, there would be a song to accompany it and match the speed at which...
A whole book is devoted to Judith as she is the embodiment of courage, self-sacrifice, and patriotism linked to female beauty. She has always captured the...
In Europeana, there are over 53 million of artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe. And we add new datasets on an ongoing basis. In...
A couple of months ago Europeana organized the Europeana Labs Challenge Fabruary 2016 to try to increase innovative re-use of the digital cultural heritage...
If you follow us on social media, you will have seen intriguing pictures of people on a bike wearing a VR headset. This was our #BigArtRide, an interactive...
This blog post was first released on the Europeana Sounds website . During the field-research carried out in the prefecture of Evros in 1996 for the...
Everyone googles their name from time to time. But have you tried doing the same on Europeana? Portraits of Roland Gerard Garvin . British Library, CC BY...
A collection of wax cylinders on the shelves at Statsbiblioteket is called the Ruben Collection. As a young man Gottfried Moses Ruben started working in his...
Today, the world knows Gustav Mahler primarily as a composer. During his lifetime at the beginning of the 20 th century this was all quite different. Mahler...
Did you love fairy tales growing up? Perhaps, as an adult, you still enjoy their magic, often brought to life through beautiful illustrations. There are...
The Vienna Court Opera was the carefully planned highlight of Gustav Mahler’s career as a conductor. On the 11 th of May, 1897 he debuted initially as a...
Planet from “L’Espace céleste et la nature tropicale…” , The British Library, public domain Today, mankind is reaching further out...
Around 170 dramatic secular and 40 dramatic sacred works: this is the number of works that Italian composer Antonio Draghi created over the course of 30...
Today, we’re excited to kickstart Europeana 280 , our cross-border campaign to get Europe excited about its shared art heritage and celebrate our new site,...
Historical sound recordings are treasures that, since the end of 19 th century, inform us about musical life, about performers and about musical...
Battle of Livorno, 14 March 1653, an incident from the First Anglo-Dutch War, anonymous. Rijksmuseum , public domain. At first, the painting above looks...
Meet Pan – god of the forest and fields and patron of shepherds. If you’re startled by his ugly fur-coated appearance, with horns sprouting from...
In the French cult film “ Amélie ” the young heroine imagines how a record is created: like making a crepe, you pour a liquid substance onto a...
What is Europeana 280? In April, Europeana will launch Europeana 280, a cross-border campaign to get people excited about Europe’s shared art heritage by...
Ibn Battuta, or ‘Abu Abd al-Lah Muhammad ibn Abd al-Lah l-Lawati t-Tangi ibn Batutah’ to give him his full name, is a strong contestant for the greatest...
Enjoy a guest post by Sabine Schostag, Statsbiblioteket , edited by Imogen Greenhalgh. A version of this post appeared first on February 4, 2016 on Europeana...
Though Verdun is the name of a charming provincial town, it also belongs to one of the most important lieu de mémoire in European history – a great...
The Dance of Death, also known as the Danse Macabre , represents the influence and power of death on people’s lives. It is both an artistic genre and an...
We love to hear about how you use Europeana. What inspires you. How the treasures you find motivate you. Today, we hear from Kumiko Sakaki, a Japanese...
Nowadays, it’s not just children that enjoy the gentle art of colouring. Colouring books aimed at adults are bestsellers – advertised as a form of...
This is a guest post by Rónán Galvin and Maeve Gebruers, Irish Traditional Music Archive . This post, titled “‘Miss Mousie’s Ball’ and ‘The ewe with the...
If this isn’t your first visit to Europeana, you’ll notice that things look a little different around here. We’ve made some changes to the site so you can get...
Guest post by Joseph Garvin from The European Library Tea is what keeps many of us going on these cold chilly winter days, when it’s raining, windy, or...
Welcome to the first blog based around the newly launched Europeana Music Collections site ! This is an exciting opportunity to showcase some of the most...
This is a guest post by Tom Miles from The British Library . This post appeared first on January 7, 2016 on Europeana Sounds blog . A happy new...
The adoration of baby Jesus by the Magi, or the Adoration of the Magi as it’s known, is a popular motif in Christian art. All sorts of famous artists from...
Do you believe in angels? If you don’t believe in them, you’ll certainly have heard of them. But what do they do for us humans? Abraham with the three...
2015’s nearly over, but before we say farewell, let’s look at what you’ve been searching for this year in Europeana’s collections. Since January, millions...
It’s winter again – it’s cold outside, and the skies have turned dark and gray. Most mornings, you won’t even want to leave your cosy...
For art lovers across Europe, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is one of modern art’s greatest painters. He is best known for his work “The Scream”, which is one of...
Even today, we talk about chivalry when a man is respectful, generous and above all helpful. These values go back to the Middle Ages when the history of...
A white face, pillow strapped on your back, socks and wooden flip flops – what a work wear! A Geisha is a Japanese entertainer skilled in traditional...
Do you know the legend of the Norwegian hero Frithiof? It’s become an immortal Scandinavian tale – several variations of it exist, and composers and...
During the First World War men and boys from more than 16,000 parishes in England and Wales joint the Army. Of all these villages there were only 53 so called...
No love is stronger than the love between mother and child. Today we want to illustrate the striking connection between Venus and Cupid. The theme has been...
(Well… sort of terrifying.) If you’re planning to mark All Hallows Eve, or Halloween as it’s now known, by dressing up, why not leave the...
Together with Europeana Food and Drink we are happy to present our newest, and probably the sweetest, virtual exhibition: Cake? Cake! Let us take you on...
Whether you’re a school student or a WW1 enthusiast, you can now discover the different causes leading to the First World War with our new iTunes U course and...
GIF IT UP is a challenge aiming to find the best GIFs created from copyright-free heritage material. The competition organised by DPLA and DigitalNZ...
If you’re reading this, I’m pretty sure you know your ABCs. But learning to read isn’t all there is to the alphabet. An ABC can teach you a whole lot...
This is a guest post by Marianna Anastasiou, The Music Library of Greece of the Friends of Music Society , CC BY-NC . This post appeared first on September...
Europeana talks a lot about encouraging the use of its collections by professionals in the creative industries. I’m a fiction writer. As such, I’d consider...
The summer has come to an end, so it’s time to announce the winners of our Caption this! contest. In July and August, we weekly posted unusual images on...
Today another guest post by Emilie Vaisman from National Library of France about the latest virtual exhibition created in cooperation with Europeana. The...
Dragons have played the role of bad guy in many a Western folk story or legend. They’ve been part of our literature and folklore as far back as we can...
Today we have a guest post by Maeve Gebruers, Printed Materials Officer, Irish Traditional Music Archive . It was first published on Europeana Sounds blog...
During the summer of 1915, the German and Austro-Hungarian armies were advancing in Galicia and Poland on the Eastern front, causing the Russians heavy...
It’s easy to take thousands of books on holiday with you these days thanks to the e-reader, a device that can store enough books to keep you reading for...
Circus Museum, CC BY-SA Here’s a little summer fun for you. Every Friday, we’ll share a great artwork or photo on Facebook and challenge you to come up...
The baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens was born on this day in 1577. Known as the ‘Prince of Painters’, and instantly recognisable for his grand, swirling...
We often think of cultural heritage as paintings hung on a museum wall, or an impressive building in a foreign city. But nowadays, in this digital age with...
Today, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholics and Anglicans celebrate the birth of St. John the Baptist. But have you heard about St. John’s Dance? In...
On Sunday June 18 1815, the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated during the Battle of Waterloo. Caving to a coalition of mainly British, Dutch and...
Europeana isn’t all ancient art and trench warfare. There’s modern stuff in the collections too. But because it’s recent, a lot of it is...
Nowadays, we’re used to billboards and posters advertising the latest exhibitions on the sides of buses and busy street corners. Art is big business so it’s...
As a child in 1980s Britain, several books and TV shows captured my imagination with their little people and tiny houses. Bagpuss. Tottie – the Story of...
However much human beings have adapted over time, one thing will never change – we will always need sleep. As an essential part of life, it is only...
We all know that animals are becoming extinct all the time. But did you know that if you average everything out, new species come into being at about the same...
On the cloudy morning of 19 May 1845 – 180 years ago – a small town, Greenhithe, in England’s Southeastern tip, was a hive of excitement and...
How old were you before a cracked mirror no longer filled you with dread? And a forest no longer conjured up thoughts of witches and wolves? Even if we...
To those of us who live here, the European Union is something that we argue about – who’s in, who’s out, who’s in charge – but ultimately, I...
By collecting together untold stories of this historic war, Europeana 1914-1918 offers many opportunities to look at familiar events from new and different...
Netsuke, the small sculptural objects worn by men in Japan since the seventeenth century, first shot to fame in Europe with the publication of Edmund de...
Nowadays there’s news breaking everywhere we go; there’s no escape. We have access the latest stories at any time, in any place, in any form. We read it, see...
With its sheer cliffs and glassy waters, the archipelago St Kilda sits at the northern tip of the British isles, the westernmost part of the Outer Hebridean...
Today we celebrate World Theatre Day, an annual celebration where all International Theatre Institutes and the international theatre community organises...
What did you discover today? Europeana can now help you find out about cool and unique places in Poland, Estonia and Sweden through Google’s Field Trip app ....
Today marks the beginning of #MuseumWeek , an event to celebrate culture on Twitter. Museums from all over the world will be tweeting about their collections...
You’ve probably seen them before, chubby babies gracefully posing in many different paintings. In official terms, these little ones are called putto, or...
Every year, on 17 March, Irish communities around the world celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, or the feast of Saint Patrick. As St. Patrick is the patron...
With International Women’s Day 2015 approaching, we’ve decided to take a look at the history of women’s rights in Europe. The rights both sexes in Europe...
In our latest virtual exhibition ‘Photography on a Silver Plate’ on Google Cultural Institute we show the faces, places and histories of the...
This year you can explore the historical photo collections made available via Europeana on Retronaut! From interesting photographs to the downright bizarre,...
A phD candidate from the University of Illinois in Chicago has uncovered previously unseen footage of the Eastland Disaster in Chicago on Europeana’s...
The birth of radio was a groundbreaking invention for both physics and communications, changing the way the world sent and received information forever. ...
Today marks the 206th birthday of scientist Charles Darwin, an important figure in Europeana’s collections. He was only 22 years old when he set off for the...
With Valentine’s Day approaching, we’ve decided to get into the spirit of things and look at some of the love stories on Europeana. Love in art, as in life,...
The years between 1900 and 1939 represent an extremely turbulent time in history with two World Wars and the rise of the suffrage movement. These unstable...
Over the past few months, we have created a couple of exciting new Pinterest boards . The boards highlight some of the beautiful content that can be found via...
One of the central tenets of our shared European culture is the freedom of speech and cultural expression. Our museums, libraries and archives are proud...
Last year we introduced you to #OpenCollections, this year we’ll continue highlighting some of the most interesting and high quality collections from...
We are very excited to announce that Europeana is working together with DailyArt to bring a selection of the collections found in Europeana to your...
So this year is almost over and now we're ready to ask what were you all looking for on Europeana this year? Millions of you from the four the corners of the...
By Gabrielle de Pooter, Communication Advisor Online Media Europeana Fashion Project – Europeana Fashion has a new look! We are still presenting the...
In 2014, it was 500 years ago that the first book was printed. To commemorate this significant period in time, we created a virtual exhibition together with...
(A version of this blog was first published on Europeana Sounds ) It's nearly time to bring out the skates. There's a promising nip in the air, and...
The Tallinn Collector is a website that showcases Soviet-era tourism guides and brochures to the Estonian capital, Tallinn. It gives its readers a...
On November 14 in 1840, one of the founders of the Impressionism movement was born on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the ninth arrondissement of...
