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Our APIs

Europeana APIs allow you to build applications that use the wealth of our collections drawn from the major museums and galleries across Europe. Their scope includes millions of cultural heritage items (from books and paintings to 3D objects and audiovisual material) that celebrate around 4,000 cultural institutions across Europe.

Have you never used an API before but do you want to start using Europeana's data for your own project? Learn about our APIs and how to use one.

Explore our APIs

Our API documentation has moved from Europeana Pro to the Europeana Knowledge Base. Select the specific API that you want to use below to go directly to its documentation page, or visit the API landing page where you can find all our API documentation, FAQs, and other supporting information.

Entity API
Title:
Early Evening Landscape
Creator:
Brodszky, Alexander
Date:
1850/1870
Institution:
Slovak national gallery
Country:
Slovakia

Entity API

This API allows you to retrieve and search for LOD entities from Europeana's Entity Collection, comprising people, places and mor…

Annotations API
Title:
Study of Rocks
Creator:
Čordák, Ľudovít
Date:
1900/1930
Institution:
Slovak national gallery
Country:
Slovakia

Annotations API

The Annotations API allows you to create and retrieve user- and machine-created annotations on Europeana objects or media.

IIIF APIs
Title:
Seascape with Ships
Creator:
Jan van de Cappelle
Date:
1660
Institution:
Mauritshuis
Country:
The Netherlands

IIIF APIs

These APIs offer an alternative means to group, search for and access information about cultural heritage images.

SPARQL
Title:
Motif from Chiemsee
Creator:
Katona, Ferdinand
Date:
1912
Institution:
Slovak national gallery
Country:
Slovakia

SPARQL

This API allows you to explore connections between Europeana data and outside data sources, like Geonames, Wikidata, and more.

Linked Open Data
Title:
Text på kortet:" Bovallstrand. Badholmarna".
Creator:
Träff, Carl Alfred
Date:
1950 - 1960
Institution:
Bohuslän Museum
Country:
Sweden

Linked Open Data

Find out which different Linked Open Data formats the Europeana API suite supports.

Thumbnail API
Title:
Still Life with Fruit and Flower Garlands
Date:
1645 - 1650
Institution:
Rijksmuseum
Country:
The Netherlands

Thumbnail API

Use this API to search for, retrieve and use thumbnails automatically generates for objects ingested in Europeana's database.

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