Curated datasets

The datasets here represent over a million of the best, directly accessible objects - newspapers, books, photos, art, artifacts, audio clips and more.

Data Updated: 6 November 2023
Photographs of Swedish historical buildings
Collections Creative industries Tourism Photographs Architecture Geodata
A compact collection of nearly 30 colour photographs of Swedish historical buildings, from royal palaces and churches to lighthouses.
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User contributed content relating to the events of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe.
Collections Creative industries History 1989
More than 300 memorabilia and stories from Poland documenting the political and social changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the year 1989. Provided by Europeana 1989, which is a pan-European project concerning the changes related to what is commonly known as the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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User contributed content from Lithuania, relating to the events of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe.
Collections Creative industries History 1989
More than 300 memorabilia and stories from Lithuania documenting the political and social changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the year 1989. Provided by Europeana 1989, which is a pan-European project concerning the changes related to what is commonly known as the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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User contributed content from Latvia, relating to the events of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe.
Collections Creative industries History 1989
Almost 200 memorabilia and stories from Latvia documenting the political and social changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the year 1989. Provided by Europeana 1989, which is a pan-European project concerning the changes related to what is commonly known as the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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User contributed content from Estonia, relating to the events of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe.
Collections Creative industries 1989
More than 90 memorabilia and stories from Estonia documenting the political and social changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the year 1989. Provided by Europeana 1989, which is a pan-European project concerning the changes related to what is commonly known as the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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Slovakian collection of paintings and sculptures
Collections Creative industries Art Paintings
A collection of more than 2,300 sculptures, wooden engravings and paintings from Slovakia.
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Newsreels from Sound and Vision on the Netherlands in the 20th century
Collections Creative industries History Video
Nearly 3,000 videos from the Open Images (Open Beelden) dataset of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The collection contains newsreels from the Polygoon collection and several other films on the Netherlands in the twentieth century. It contains historical news events, with topics such as art, culture, transportation, health and healthcare, nature, politics, sports, pets and fashion.
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Drawings and sketches from the National Library of Wales
Collections Creative industries Drawings Architecture
More than 500 drawings, sketches, scribblings (b/w and colour, various techniques) of landscapes, with a focus on the UK but also other countries. Other items like architectural drawings are included too.
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Cultural heritage objects from the Rotterdam Museum
Collections Creative industries Design Fashion Artefacts Social-networks
A collection of more than 30,000 images covering a diverse range of objects, including furniture, dishes, jewellery, fashion, cityscapes, packaging material, etc.
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WWI collection of the Berlin State Library
Collections Creative industries First-world-war Geodata
A collection of more than 7,000 documents and images. In German.
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