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 supposed to do what and when? It may be...
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 World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action....
1. Yorkshire is the biggest county in England
An annotated version of Map of England & Wales showing population, 1700s. Wellcome Collection, CC BY
Except that strictly speaking, Yorkshire...
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 used to announce the author(s), title,...
Terrain Gallery | Aesthetic Realism Foundation
03.05.2024
By MARCIA RACKOW. As I studied the work of the renowned French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot, whom I care for, I was taken by the energy and motion in it, at one with its form and...
Three Butterflies by Herman Henstenburgh, c.1683 – c.1726, Rijksmuseum, public domain
‘The universe is transformation, life is opinion.’
Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, Meditations, c. 121–180...
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 theme ‘What does the sea mean to...
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 them Finland, Poland, Latvia and...
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 influence the score by voting for the...
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 a look at an album of Victorian-era...
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 workforce in the Netherlands. We spoke to...
When we asked people to share their stories and symbolic objects of migration, the responses submitted could be largely separated into two categories: those who emigrated by choice, and those who...
V okviru Evropskega leta kulturne dediščine je Slovensko predstavništvo Evropske komisije pripravilo opise slovenskih projektov v angleščini za objavo na spletni strani in v mesečnih novicah – tako...
60 let delovanja muzeja je pomembne obletnica. Zaradi tega smo jo proslavili z lokalno skupnostjo ter podelili nagrade našim pomembnim sodelavcem. Ob tem smo odprli tudi razstavo, ki je pregled dela...
Terrain Gallery | Aesthetic Realism Foundation
03.05.2024
By KEN KIMMELMAN Reprinted from the Journal of the Print World When, in the 1960’s, I first saw Robert Indiana’s LOVE , it really took me, as it did people across America — it was the...
Guest blog written by Fabian & Tatjana Vendrig ( Dutch and Serbian language versions below)
“The bread you sent, every Serb took it, they crossed themselves and kissed it and then we all...
We have recently begun collecting personal stories from people all across Europe relating to migration.
Our new short blog series, Love across borders , is inspired by collections discovered...
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 opportunity to re-examine the turning points...
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 universities, exploring literacy in Europe...
Patrocinato perchè giudicato meritevole di sostegno dalla Fondazione Terzo Pilastro - Italia e Mediterraneo di Roma, ideato e progettato dall’Ass. Museo civico TEMPO, gestito e promosso dal...