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
Works of art from the Rijksmuseum
Collections Creative industries Art Geodata
More than 180,000 paintings, drawings, statues and other works of art. This is the complete Rijksmuseum dataset in Europeana.
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Data Updated: 6 November 2023
Scans of plants from the OpenUp! project
Collections Creative industries Natural-history Geodata
More than 4,000 scans of plants mounted on sheets from Institute of Botany of Slovak Academy of Sciences.
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Data Updated: 6 November 2023
Scans of plants from the OpenUp! project
Collections Creative industries Natural-history
More than 88,000 scans of plants mounted on sheets.
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Data Updated: 27 August 2024
Sounds of daily life and birds from Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision
Collections Creative industries Sounds Geodata social-networks
A collection of about 2,500 sounds of daily life, birds, city sounds, airplanes etc.
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Data Updated: 6 November 2023
Photographs of soldiers during WWI
Collections Creative industries History First-world-war Photographs Geodata
A collection of 50 photographs of soldiers in caves and trenches during WWI.
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Data Updated: 6 November 2023
Old handwritten documents from Scandinavia
Collections Creative industries Literature Geodata
A collection of over 2,700 documents from the archives of the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland.
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Data Updated: 6 November 2023
Incunabula from Edinburgh
Collections Creative industries History Prints
A collection of 27 incunabula from Edinburgh. These books, printed before the year 1501, are among the most precious items in any library and Edinburgh University is privileged to have a significant collection of nearly 300 such books.
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Data Updated: 6 November 2023
Content collected during the Europeana 1914-1918 roadshows
Collections Creative industries History First-world-war
An ever-growing collection of over 185,000 medals, letters, postcards, pictures, diaries and other memorabilia brought together during the Europeana 1914-1918 roadshows.
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Data Updated: 6 November 2023
Calotypes and portraits from Edinburgh
Collections Creative industries History Photographs landscapes
This collection of 701 items includes photographs of local characters and famous figures of the era, as well as landscape and urban scenes.
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Data Updated: 6 November 2023
Architectural drawings from Edinburgh
Collections Creative industries Tourism Drawings Architecture
This collection of about 300 items is based around the architectural drawings of William Henry Playfair (1789-1857) and Robert Rowand Anderson (1834-1921).
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