Title: Childcare Prevention is better than cure, 1917 US Red Cross
Creator: Alice Dick Dumas
Institution: Wellcome Collection
Country: United Kingdom
CC BYWe 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
Creator: Örebro Kuriren
Date: 1969
Institution: Örebro läns museum
Country: Sweden
CC BY-NCinDICEs: enhancing the impact of digital cultural heritage
inDICEs aims to empower cultural and creative industries, policy-makers and decision-makers to fully understand the social and economic impact of digitisation of cultural heritage.
Title: Alexander Archipenko, Two women, 1920 (paper mask)
Creator: Photo by Dušan Radovanović
Date: July 2020
Institution: National Museum in Belgrade
Country: Serbia
CC BY-NC-SATurning digital art into designer face masks
As part of our Discovering Europe season, last week we explored how cultural heritage institutions across Europe are starting to open their doors. In this post, Tamara Butigan takes a look at a special reopening initiative from two Serbian museums who are using digitised art from their collections on face masks, offering people a new and timely way to engage with their content.
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 providing 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 inspiring examples of how the cultural heritage sector is responding to the challenge 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