Title: A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer, being a delineation of the present state of the World
Institution: The British Library
Country: United Kingdom
Public DomainWe are Europeana
We empower the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation. We develop expertise, tools and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation. We make it easier for people to use cultural heritage for education, research, creation and recreation. Our work contributes to an open, knowledgeable and creative society.
Discovering Europe
Our Discovering Europe season highlights Europe’s rich natural beauty and cultural heritage to inspire travel to local and alternative destinations. Cultural heritage professionals can explore news, content and information related to tourism in the cultural heritage sector on our dedicated page.
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Title: La Corniche near Monaco
Date: 1884
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainNews
Title: Palazzo Marigliano, Italy. Participants of the 3rd round of the European Heritage Weeks - Facebook Live Visits
Date: 2020-05-30
Institution: Palazzo Marigliano
CC BY-SAAn interview with European Historic Houses
In this post, Marion Ratier of European Historic Houses discusses the online initiatives European Historic Houses organised during closures caused by COVID-19, and the ongoing relevance of these projects even as some houses begin to reopen.
Title: Retrat d'estudi d'una nena
Creator: Desconegut
Institution: Ajuntament de Girona
Country: Spain
Public DomainCulture from home – Connecting through webinars during the lockdown
From March to June 2020, Europeana Communicators held a series of webinars on the theme ‘Culture from home’, in which specialists from museums, libraries, archives and educational settings shared their solutions for reaching audiences while their doors were closed. Here, co-chair and webinar moderator Susan Hazan reflects on the series.
Europeana 2020
We’re really excited to announce that Europeana 2020 will be taking place online between 11-13 November 2020, although we hope to organise some local ‘meet-ups’ as part of the conference.
Our online conference will aim to be a participatory event that gathers voices from across the sector and continent to explore all things digital cultural heritage.
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Services and Tools
Title: Esbjörn at the study corner
Creator: Carl Larsson
Institution: Nationalmuseum Sweden
Country: Sweden
Public DomainEducation
Information, guidance and resources to enrich and inspire learning practice.
Date: c.1615 - c.1620
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainEuropeana Collections
A multilingual resource that provides online access to a vast store of cultural heritage material from across Europe.
Title: Tennis på Lidingö omkring 1898
Institution: Sörmlands museum
Country: Sweden
CC BY-SAMetadata
The Europeana Data Model (EDM) is an interoperable framework that allows us to collect, connect and enrich cultural heritage metadata.
Title: Deichmanske Bibliotek Fra. Lesesal I
Creator: Th. Skotaam
Institution: Oslo Museum
CC BY-SAResearch
Funding and community resources to promoting cultural heritage for use in research.
Title: The regular washing of hands. Lithograph, ca. 1960
Institution: Wellcome Collection
Country: United Kingdom
CC BYWorking with and for you in the time of COVID-19
Tools, resources and innovative and inspiring examples of how the cultural heritage sector is harnessing digital cultural heritage to respond to the challenges of COVID-19.
Projects
We form projects and partnerships around new ideas and technologies that encourage audiences to engage with their cultural heritage.
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Title: Winter Scene from the Stockholm Waterfront.
Creator: Alfred Bergström
Date: 1899
Institution: Nationalmuseum Sweden
Country: Sweden
Public Domain