Cultural heritage has a crucial role to play in education. The digital collections of Europeana provide multiple perspectives on historical, scientific and cultural developments across Europe and beyond. We want to bring this source of knowledge to every learner, educator or educational organisation so that they can experience the pedagogical potential of digital cultural heritage and build new 21st century skills. Explore how on this page.
Title: Toothbrush drill at School
Date: 1920
Institution: Wellcome Collection
Country: United Kingdom
CC BYWe bring together all those who believe that Europe’s digital cultural heritage has an important role to play in education and want to work with us to embed Europeana in education.
Title: Historiana.eu landing page
Creator: Historiana
Date: 2021
CC BY-SAAn online learning platform which supports the use of cultural heritage collections in education.
Date: 1760 - 1790
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainA creative educational challenge based on Beethoven's life and work for students in primary and secondary education.
A selection of educational resources using digital culture for educators, learners and parents, available on Europeana.eu.
Creator: Desconegut
Date: 1930/1935
Institution: Ajuntament de Girona
Country: Spain
Public Domain
Title: hild playing Birdie Memory at Fête de la Nature
Date: Ca. 2018
Country: France
CC BY-SAExperts in cultural heritage and education talk about Europeana Education, Minecraft and art education in social media.
Title: Image obtained from ESACH
Raul Gomez Hernandez, Collections Engagement Intern at Europeana Foundation, discusses promoting diversity and inclusion with digital collections through #reinventingBeethoven.
Creator: Enzo Poire
Institution: Värmdö kommun
Country: Sweden
CC BYThis short webinar explores the potential of Europeana in relation to STEM and ready-made learning material that can help to achieve key 21st Century competencies with students.
Date: 1887
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainThis short webinar offers an overview around the tools that can be used to create memes, gifs, or even board games that students might find of interest, and how to embed these tools in a project.
Date: 1660/1680
Institution: Slovak National Gallery
Country: Slovakia
Public DomainThis short webinar offers general training on integrating digital cultural items in online lessons with Minecraft and Mozilla Hubs applications.
Title: Panó Dívka s kopretinou
Creator: Mucha Alfons Kocourek Ondřej, Urbánek Gabriel
Date: 1801-1-1
Institution: Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze
Country: Czech Republic
Public DomainThe Open Content Toolkit highlights openly licensed digital resources and content from around the world and encourages educators to use them in the classroom. We interview its creator, Europeana Education community member Theo Kuechel, about how the Toolkit can be used by teachers and the inspiration that he draws from Europeana.
Title: Indian musicians playing their instruments. Gouache drawing.
Institution: Wellcome Collection
Country: United Kingdom
CC BYWe take a closer look at some of the entries to the #ReinventingBeethoven competition to explore how the it encouraged students and teachers to engage with new tools and digitised cultural heritage.