Creative approaches and collaborations

In this section you can explore inspiration from across the sector on how cultural heritage organisations are working to engage audiences with their collections, tools and services online as they face temporary closure due to COVID-19.

These offer only some examples of ideas and initiatives from across our sector at this time and we are keen to highlight more. If you have more ideas and examples please share them with us.

Ideas for digital engagement in the time of COVID-19

Explore resources, tools and ideas from Europeana and cultural heritage institutions around the world which offer creative ways to share cultural heritage online.

Sector activity to inspire you

Examples from across the arts, culture and heritage sector including comms, social media, acts of kindness and audience engagement drawn together by the Arts Marketing Association.

MCN guide to online collections

A guide to virtual museum resources, E-Learning, and online collections from MCN.

8 essential things museums are providing

Museum Computer Network with a lowdown on creative ways museums are providing essential relief at the moment

My Home is My Museum

An initiative from the National Museums Liverpool to invite children to curate exhibitions inspired by their own lives.

Cultural Digital Streams

Performances, events, classes and tours from artists and institutions available to stream digitally.

Anne Frank's video diary

A project from the Anne Frank House imagines if Anne Frank had a camera instead of a diary.

The Social Distancing Festival

An online artist’s community made to celebrate and showcase the work of the many artists around the world who have been affected by social distancing.

Singer Laren TV

Activities and films for children to engage with the Singer Laren Museum's collections.

Culture Themes for social media

A resource of hashtags to help initiatives across the sector join up and gain exposure.

Who can draw the best ham

A fun social media campaign from the Royal Academy.

#OnlineArtExchange

A social media campaign from ArtUK encouraging museums and galleries to share artworks they love from other collections to help spread art online

#ColourOurCollections

A way to encourage the public to explore, add to and colour art from different organisations.

#MuseumAlphabet

A social media campaign to encourage cultural heritage institutions to share an item from their collection every day in alphabetical order.

Remembering COVID-19 in Frankfurt

The Historisches Museum Frankfurt has invited audiences to collect and contribute pictures, texts, audios, videos, photos, objects and stories to document the current situation.

Collecting memories of COVID-19 in Sweden

The Nordiska Museet wants to preserve people's experiences of the COVID-19 crisis for future researchers and are asking the public to contribute text and images sharing their stories.

COVID-19 in Vienna: a collection project on the city's history

The Vienna Museum is asking the public to contribute photos ofrom their everyday life in times of COVID-19. A selection of the proposed objects will be included in the collection of the City of Vienna.

These Times

The Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) is inviting members of the public across the UK to document their personal experiences of living through the Covid-19 outbreak, as a reference for future generations.

Storyflix

A free online catalogue of folk tales, myths and legends, told and recorded on video by professional storytellers from around the world.

3D Virtual Tour of Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland

This 3-D virtual tour allows audiences to wander virtually through the historic building from the comfort of their homes, taking in centuries of art across three floors of gallery spaces with this state-of-the art, easily navigable touring technology.

Attribution for images: Creator, Sebastiaan Ter Burg; Institution, Europeana Foundation; Country, Netherlands; CC BY 2.0