‘I use Europeana as part of a gamified approach to digital archives that enhances creativity in the classroom. Students collect material on Europeana and use it to solve a problem and complete a challenge in the virtual world on Minecraft or in the augmented virtual reality of Mozilla Hubs.’

Our pupils used Europeana’s collections to inspire the design of some robotic sea monsters, as part of an Erasmus+ project for secondary schools called Augmented Age of Inventions. The results are truly original - far from the mainstream manga style that normally influences their art.

I used the data extracted from the Europeana APIs to develop a web application to visualise Soviet posters for my master’s thesis in Digital Humanities. Europeana is a powerful resource that gives access to a rich collection of digitised cultural heritage across Europe and can be used in many creative ways to explore almost any topic.

I used Europeana images, its Twitter feed and blog in my dissertation research. I wanted to discover who uses digital images and why, as well as how we, as digital cultural heritage creators, can help people discover and reuse digital images by raising their ranking in the Google Images Search.

As a sports historian, I use a lot of Europeana material for my research, for my website Sportgeschiedenis.nl and on social media. At the end of 2021 I asked my university students in Mechelen to collect photos from Europeana of the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp to make an online exhibition about the Games.

I’ve been making short and funny animated gifs using free archive images on Europeana for a while now and I’ve created a skill-sharing course showing other people how to do it too. I love the fact you can save your favourite Europeana images to use later. It means you can experiment with ideas.

I have used wonderful paintings from Europeana (and elsewhere) in 'World of Art' - a video game for people who love art and jigsaw puzzles. I created it during the pandemic to bring some peace, joy and education to gamers and non-gamers alike.

Collage artists are perpetually looking for copyright-free, high quality images to work with, and Europeana is an excellent source. I use their images for personal work and the weekly creative challenges of Paris Collage Collective. Placing old images into new contexts teaches us more about who we are than any history book.

I am a freelance artist from Thailand and I specialise in making artwork about people in history. I really enjoy searching and looking at pictures on the Europeana website. There are all kinds of artworks there to help me to learn about art creation. The things I find on Europeana are interesting and inspiring.

As co-producers of a podcast shining a light on the oft-forgotten history of our Scottish Borderlands, we find Europeana a valuable source of imagery and archive material. The depiction of The Crusades in terms of a chess game is striking and chimes with our narrative. Using Europeana has triggered many ideas for future podcast instalments.

I use Europeana material to create collages for things like New Year cards. I spotted several beautiful pictures from 1920-21 in Europeana. I found maps to create graphic backgrounds as well as landscapes, fashion pictures, graphic elements, stamps, etc. Europeana is really easy to use and it's genuinely interesting and fun to work with these testimonies of the past.