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Annapaula Freire de Oliveira

Former Community Editor Europeana Foundation Netherlands Archive

Blogposts

Title:

A screenshot from the Greetings From Zagreb app

Creator:

NSK

Date:

December 2017

Institution:

NSK

Country:

Croatia

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 6 March 2018

Greetings From Zagreb - a journey through time

API Cultural Heritage Institutions Croatia creative-industries

We talk to the people behind 'Greetings From Zagreb', an app that uses historical postcards that are available on Europeana Collections.

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Title:

D100. Japanese Lantern Makers | Unbekannt.

Date:

1880-1890.

Institution:

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 14 February 2018

#MakeWithEuropeana: Makers market pilot report

Funding Cultural Heritage Institutions makers creative-industries

Europeana releases its report of the makers market and sets out recommendations for our future approach to reaching this segment of the creative industries.

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Title:

22.0 IBM modell System/32 and System 34.

Date:

1977.

Institution:

Telemuseet

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 12 February 2018

Get started with our APIs for a successful Europeana #edTech Challenge application

Creative industries api challenge Europeana-challenge Rest-API

An overview of the API technical support and consultation available to you.

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Title:

Rhyton

Date:

4th - 3rd century BC

Institution:

Institute of Balkan Studies and Thracology

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 5 February 2018

Europeana #EdTech Challenge: inspirational tips and tricks (Part 2)

Creative industries challenges Europeana-challenge

Get creative with our selection of openly licensed content

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Title:

Art Stories FACES

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 28 January 2018

Art Stories FACES new release: more art, more fun, better learning

Funding Cultural Heritage Institutions education Europeana-challenge games creative-industries

Inspired by the internet phenomenon of selfies, the Art Stories FACES game uses famous painting portraits to teach children about the basics of …

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Title:

n man klädd i flygardräkt kliver in i flygplan S 31 Spitfire. | Okänd fotograf.

Date:

1948-1955.

Institution:

Flygvapenmuseum.

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 25 January 2018

Europeana #EdTech Challenge: inspirational tips and tricks (Part 1)

Creative industries Europeana-challenge challenges

Openly licensed content to get your creativity going.

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Title:

Vanitas Still Life

Creator:

Edwaert Collier

Date:

1662

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 15 January 2018

Europeana #edTech Challenge

Creative industries Europeana-challenge

Win up to €30,000 for the best ideas reusing Europeana's openly licensed content for innovative learning

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Title:

Christmas card design.

Creator:

Napper, Harry.

Date:

20th century.

Institution:

Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University.

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 11 December 2017

#MakeItFestive: Greeting cards

Creative industries makers

This is the last blog in a series dedicated to end-of-the-year festivities and highlighting Europeana content that can inspire festive creative …

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Title:

Hungarian Ornamental Motifs from Tiszapolgár.

Creator:

István Gróh, Károlyi György kő- és könyvnyomdája, Budapest.

Date:

1904

Institution:

Schola Graphidis Art Collection, Hungarian University Of Fine Arts - High School Of Visual Arts, Budapest.

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Blog Created: 29 November 2017

#MakeItFestive: Gift Wrapping

Creative industries makers

This is the third blog in a series dedicated to end-of-the-year festivities and highlighting Europeana content that can inspire festive creative reuse by makers.

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Blog Created: 14 November 2017

#MakeItFestive: Toys

Creative industries makers

This is the second blog in a series dedicated to end-of-the-year festivities and highlighting Europeana content that can inspire creative reuse by makers.

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Title:

Illustration created during the "Uncharted Territory" session, by graphic recorder Anne Lehmann.

Blog Created: 1 November 2017

Charting new territory: a compass for cultural institutions

Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries artsplus digital strategy

On 11 October, Europeana invited pioneering cultural institutions to present their digital strategies during THE ARTS+ , a creative business …

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Blog Created: 30 October 2017

Make it Festive

Creative industries makers

Get creative with Europeana’s openly licensed content for a joyful holiday season

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Title:

Participants during Europeana's GIF-making workshop at THE ARTS+ 2017.

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Blog Created: 19 October 2017

Europeana at THE ARTS+ 2017: from insights into digital cultural transformation to new creative experiences

Creative industries artsplus

From 11 to 15 October, Europeana joined cultural institutions, publishing houses, technology companies and other creative minds in Frankfurt, …

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Blog Created: 6 October 2017

Presenting strategies of pioneering cultural institutions at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries panel digital artsplus

On 11 October, speakers from world-renowned cultural heritage institutions will gather in Frankfurt to discuss the future of culture in society and …

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Blog Created: 31 August 2017

Maps for makers: Globes, spheres, charts and diagrams

Creative industries makers creative-industries maps

labs This is the last in a blog series dedicated to maps and highlighting Europeana content that can inspire commercial creative reuse by makers. …

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News Created: 15 August 2017

Maps for makers: Satirical, political and unusual maps

Creative industries creative-industries makers maps

labs This is the third in a series of blogs dedicated to maps and highlighting Europeana content that can inspire commercial creative reuse by …

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News Created: 1 August 2017

Maps for makers: Famous cartographers

Creative industries makers creative-industries maps

labs This is the second in a series of blogs dedicated to maps and highlighting Europeana content that can inspire commercial creative reuse by …

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News Created: 19 July 2017

Europeana REST API wins a 2017 API Award for the category Data APIs

API Creative industries awards Rest-API

labs We’re thrilled to announce that the Europeana REST API has received a 2017 API Award for the category “Data APIs”. This recognition …

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News Created: 12 July 2017

Deal with tour operator sees Art Stories FACES used in holiday villages this summer

API Collections Content promotion Creative industries Education challenge

labs Developing educational apps that introduce children to the delights of art, history and architecture has been the mission of Italian startup …

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News Created: 31 May 2017

#MakewithEuropeana: Art Nouveau mastercrafts

Creative industries art-nouveau makers creative-industries

labs This is the last in a series of blogs dedicated to Art Nouveau and highlighting Europeana content to inspire commercial creative reuse by …

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News Created: 17 May 2017

#MakewithEuropeana: Art Nouveau architecture and interiors

Creative industries makers creative-industries art-nouveau

labs This is the third in a series of blogs dedicated to Art Nouveau and highlighting Europeana content that can inspire commercial creative …

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News Created: 4 May 2017

#MakewithEuropeana: Art Nouveau patterns

Creative industries makers art-nouveau creative-industries

labs On Europeana Labs, we are constantly seeking to inspire and encourage you to reuse Europe’s shared cultural heritage in new products, …

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News Created: 26 April 2017

Three projects #MadewithEuropeana go crowdfunding. Get involved!

Creative industries Education matchfunding creative-industries crowdfunding

labs We recently announced the three innovative educational projects selected in Europeana’s first match funding call in collaboration with Goteo …

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News Created: 19 April 2017

#MakewithEuropeana: Art Nouveau fashion and jewellery

Creative industries makers creative-industries art-nouveau

labs On Europeana Labs, we are constantly seeking to inspire and encourage you to reuse Europe’s shared cultural heritage in new products, …

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Pages

Title:

Vanitas Still Life

Creator:

Edwaert Collier

Date:

1662

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Copyright:

Public Domain

Page Created: 12 January 2018

Europeana #edTech Challenge 2018 - Terms and Conditions

Creative industries Education challenge challenges

The Europeana #edTech Challenge 2018 is now closed for applications.

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Datasets

Title:

A screenshot of Sourcera.

Showcase Updated: 20 September 2018

Sourcera

Creative industries add-on api

Sourcera is an add-on that lets you search in many of the world's largest and richest archives (including Europeana) for images that are free to …

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Title:

Trouwjurk.

Date:

1898-1908.

Institution:

The Frieda Dauphin-Verhees' Study Collection. MoMu.

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Showcase Updated: 22 February 2018

Capturing Fashion in the 20th Century with Frieda Dauphin-Verhees' Study Collection

Creative industries machfunding

Frieda Dauphin-Verhees is a Belgian costume designer who collected clothing and accessories throughout her entire life. Frieda partially donated her …

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Title:

Girl Carding

Creator:

Wiik, Maria

Date:

1883

Institution:

Finnish National Gallery

Copyright:

CC0

Data Updated: 15 February 2018

High-resolution artworks from the Finnish National Gallery

Creative industries paintings

Discover a collection of over 10.000 high-resolution paintings and drawings from the 17th to the early 20th century. This set showcases openly …

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Title:

Attaching a dispatch on a carrier pigeon | K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien. 1917. Austrian National Library. Public Domain.

Showcase Updated: 22 December 2017

Animals in the Great War

Creative industries ebook history matchfunding

A bilingual eBook in Italian and English, Animals in the Great War investigates the World War I and studies its history from the standpoint of …

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Showcase Updated: 18 December 2017

Greetings from Zagreb

Creative industries app tourism

An Android app that takes you on a journey through time.

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Title:

A screenshot of Manesse Gammon.

Showcase Updated: 22 December 2017

Manesse Gammon

Creative industries games

Inspired by the manuscript Codex Manesse, Manesse Gammon is an interactive illustration that lets you play a game of backgammon. The Codex …

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Title:

A screenshot of Platsminnen's website.

Showcase Updated: 14 December 2017

Platsminnen

Creative industries app API Search-API

Platsminnen (in Swedish “Place Memories”) is an iPad app that uses cultural heritage as a resource for reminiscence activities and communication in …

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Title:

Postcard by designer Willem Driebergen. Image credits: "A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations and anatomical diagrams of the eye with a numbered key", The Wellcome Library, CC BY.

Showcase Updated: 7 December 2017

Promotional postcards from Kugler Publications

Creative industries postcards

Kugler Publications , a medical publisher, has created promotional postcards using Europeana's openly licensed content. Developed by designer Willem …

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Title:

Natural straw broad-brimmed hat with fabric poppies, cornflowers, daisies, and wheat stalks.

Creator:

Thaarup, Aage

Date:

1965-1969

Institution:

. Victoria and Albert Museum

Copyright:

CC BY

Data Updated: 6 December 2017

Fashion objects from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Creative industries fashion

Find out a collection of more than 9,000 beautiful fashion objects. From complete looks - created for different seasons of the year - to shoes, …

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Showcase Updated: 20 December 2017

CRAFT

Creative industries fashion Europeana-challenge

CRAFT (the creative artificial intelligence fashion tool) is the winning project idea from the second Europeana Challenge of 2016 . This early …

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

MuSO

Academic Research Creative industries API music

Music Scholarship Online ( MuSO ) is a digital hub for conducting music scholarship. You can search and discover a variety of content relating to …

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Title:

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Creator:

Johannes Vermeer

Date:

1665

Institution:

Mauritshuis

Copyright:

Public Domain

Data Updated: 7 February 2018

High-resolution paintings from the Mauritshuis

Creative industries paintings

Discover a unique collection of high-resolution paintings by Dutch and Flemish masters from the Golden Age. This collection gives you access to free …

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Data Updated: 14 September 2017

Sounds of nature from the British Library

Creative industries sounds nature

Discover a collection of almost 1,500 audio files that feature sounds of nature - mainly bird songs. Recorded in the United Kingdom, during the late …

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Title:

Cyclist on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam

Creator:

Breitner, George Hendrik.

Date:

1890-1910

Institution:

Rijksmuseum.

Copyright:

Public Domain

Data Updated: 7 February 2018

Street photography by Dutch artist Breitner

Creative industries photography

A collection of over 100 black-and-white photographs of Amsterdam from the late 19th century and early 20th century. Celebrated painter and photograp…

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Showcase Updated: 20 December 2017

Design projects from LUCA, School of Arts, Brussels

Creative industries design

Graphic Design students from LUCA (School of Arts, Brussels) used Europeana content to create interactive and immersive digital experiences. As …

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Automated image analysis with IIIF

Academic Research Creative industries api

A search interface created by digital media agency Cogapp for the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) 2017 Conference in The …

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Showcase Updated: 13 September 2017

RE:VIVE

Creative industries music

An initiative from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision , RE:VIVE brings together musicians and archives to create new material out of …

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Showcase Updated: 13 September 2017

Wotify card sets

Creative industries co-creation

Using the Co-creation Made Agile methodology, Wotify tools and canvas help teams to develop applications dedicated to education, cultural heritage …

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Showcase Updated: 20 December 2017

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

Cultural Heritage Institutions api

The online catalogue of the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (BNP) allows users to simultaneously search for content in all the library’s collection…

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Showcase Updated: 20 December 2017

Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog

Academic Research api

The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) is a search engine that gives access to millions of books, magazines and other media from library and book …

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Showcase Updated: 13 December 2017

re#MEDIA projects

Creative industries design

Part of the Tu Europeana campaign, the re#MEDIA workshop encouraged design students from the School of Form (SoF) in Poznan to think of …

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Showcase Updated: 13 September 2017

Art Up Your Tab

Creative industries api art

The Chrome browser extension Art Up Your Tab shows you an enticing, inspiring painting or photograph from the rich collection of Europeana with every …

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Tool Updated: 16 November 2017

Europeana bulk downloader

Creative industries api

A collection of code snippets (mainly php) for working with the Europeana API. Get bulk downloads of specific subsets of items, including both their …

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Showcase Updated: 13 September 2017

InPersepolis

Creative industries history travel

A virtual reconstruction of the ancient sites of Persepolis and Pasargadae through the eyes of 19th century travelers. InPersepolis combines …

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Showcase Updated: 9 November 2017

Storypix

Creative industries Europeana-challenge

Storypix is a web exhibition platform that brings art into the digital realm and introduces a human voice to it. This app was designed to show …

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Showcase Updated: 13 September 2017

Europanorama

Creative industries api

Europanorama is a big data book that investigates European culture and identity. To answer to his research questions, the designer Peter Hofmann …

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Showcase Updated: 13 September 2017

Europeana Radio

Creative industries api music

Europeana Radio allows you to discover and listen to the music from Europeana's Music Collections. Pick your favourite station and enjoy listening! …

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

KNReise

Creative industries maps

Supported by KNReise and the Arts Council Norway , this map-demo service displays the artworks from the Europeana 280 campaign by country of …

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Showcase Updated: 9 November 2017

Cinemacina

Creative industries art Europeana-challenge

Use Cinemacina for a dynamic, visual experience of the diverse and rich Europeana Collections. Type a keyword on Cinemacina’s search field or …

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Data Updated: 2 November 2017

Vintage stereoscope cards

Creative industries photography

Discover a collection of over 300 stereoscope cards (stereograms) from the late 19th century. Stereoscope cards describe a pair of two-dimensional …

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Data Updated: 15 September 2017

Black-and-white pictures by Swedish photographer John Hertzberg

Creative industries photography

A collection of over 400 beautiful black-and-white images by Swedish photographer John Hertzberg (1871-1935). Provided by the Swedish National Museum …

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Data Updated: 2 November 2017

Vintage photographs from the Bohusläns Museum, Sweden

Creative industries photography

A collection of over 5,000 public domain vintage photographs from the Bohusläns museum in Sweden. It includes works by female portrait photographers …

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Data Updated: 19 January 2018

High resolution drawings from the Dutch Labour Movement

Creative industries drawings history

A collection of almost 2,000 satirical drawings that portray the Dutch Labour Movement in the early 20th century. These public-domain marked artworks …

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Data Updated: 15 September 2017

Art Nouveau: Ornamental Motifs in Hungarian Style

Creative industries art-nouveau patterns

Over 100 floral prints showcasing Hungary’s ornamental art from the early 20th century. Visual motifs are often combined and repeated to form …

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Data Updated: 15 September 2017

Art Nouveau: Drawings of plants and ornaments

Creative industries art-nouveau drawings

A collection of drawings illustrating plants and their ornamental applications during the famous Art Nouveau movement. Designers found inspiration in …

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Data Updated: 15 September 2017

Art Nouveau: Architectural and interior design drawings

Creative industries architecture art-nouveau

A collection of house interiors and facades drawings that were dedicated to the education of architects and builders in the early 20th century. The …

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Data Updated: 14 September 2017

Early photographs of Japan

Creative industries photographs japan

Nearly 200 black-and-white and hand-colored photographs of Japan from the 19th century. A collection of travel photography that presents typical …

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Data Updated: 14 September 2017

Early 20th century gymnastics

Creative industries photography

Over 40 black-and-white photographs from the early 20th century. Discover a small collection of sports photography that captures the incredible …

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Data Updated: 14 September 2017

Daguerreotypes from the MKG Hamburg

Creative industries photography

A collection of nearly 700 daguerreotypes from Germany, this set presents portrait photos of historical figures and families from the 19th century. …

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Data Updated: 15 September 2017

Art Nouveau posters and decorative objects

Creative industries art-nouveau

Over 100 Art Nouveau items ranging from posters to decorative arts. Explore an art style that took inspiration from nature – the lines, shapes and …

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Data Updated: 14 September 2017

Posters, sketches and drawings by Toulouse-Lautrec

Creative industries drawings posters

A collection of over 200 posters, sketches and drawings by celebrated post-impressionist artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Provided by the library of …

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Korea Copyright Commission

Creative industries api Books

Supported by the Korea Copyright Commission, Gongu is a search service where users can search and access explicitly licensed content online.

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Showcase Updated: 18 May 2018

PICRYL

Creative industries api PublicDomain Photographs

PICRYL is a search engine for public domain images, documents, music, and videos.

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Data Updated: 31 August 2017

Stamps and seals from the Lithuanian Art Museum

Collections Creative industries stamps seals history Lithuanian Lithuania Multiple Eras

Over 800 historical stamps and seals (emblems) from the 16th- to the 20th century.

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Showcase Updated: 9 November 2017

Art Stories Faces

Creative industries Education art games Europeana-challenge Gaming English Italian Italy Primary

An educational game for kids (5 to 10 years old) built using artworks from the Europeana Collections.

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Virtual 17th-century Flemish inn

Creative industries history vr Belgium

An online 3D resource showing a virtual reconstruction of the Swan inn: an establishment located in Ename, Belgium, during the year of 1665.

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Data Updated: 2 November 2017

Swedish military aviation in historical images

Collections Creative industries technology history aviation military Photographs Sweden 19th Century

An extensive collection of over 13,000 photographs, postcards, posters, floor plans, and caricatures, documenting the development of the Swedish Air Force.

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Data Updated: 2 November 2017

Historical portraits of London Pubs

Collections Creative industries photography food-and-drink Photographs English Western Europe United Kingdom 1900-1945 1945 Onwards

A collection of more than 3,000 photographs of public houses from the early 20th century up to the late 1960’s.

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Showcase Updated: 14 February 2018

On This Day

Creative industries api history

Discover and share images of events that happened on this day in history

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Data Updated: 8 September 2017

Music Collections

Collections Creative industries challenge music songs Audio European Union Multiple Eras

The Europeana Music Collection is a selected sub-set of items which uses multi-lingual, diverse, topic-based API query terms to surface diverse content on the theme of Europe's Music Heritage

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Data Updated: 8 September 2017

Art History Collection

Collections Education art history drawings Drawings Paintings European Union Multiple Eras

The Europeana Art History Collection is a carefully selected sub-set of items which uses multi-lingual, diverse, topic-based terms to query the Europeana API

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Showcase Updated: 9 February 2018

Europeana Colour Explorer

Creative industries api

The Colour Explorer is a demonstrator to showcase the new media metadata filters and colour search available from Europeana

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Showcase Updated: 16 November 2017

Europeana Blacklight

Creative industries api library Rest-API

Ruby gem providing an adapter to use the Europeana REST API as a data source for Blacklight.

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Data Updated: 18 May 2018

High resolution Public Domain images from Statens Museum for Kunst

Collections Creative industries art history PublicDomain Paintings Danish Denmark Multiple Eras

Over 5,000 public domain artworks, all with links to high quality image files

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Showcase Updated: 13 September 2017

Muzeums

Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries api
Muzeums is an app delivering content according to the museum visitor's profile
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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Photomediations

Creative industries book

Photomediations: An Open Book redesigns a coffee-table book as an online experience.

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

WUD

Academic Research Creative industries api

WUD is a customised search engine helping you to pull, link and organise data from two major cultural heritage repositories: Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Europeana Attribution Tool

Creative industries api Rest-API

This tool, created for the Europeana Food & Drink project, allows users to supply a url for a Europeana page and generate an attribution snippet in either text or html

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

EBSCO Discovery Service

Creative industries api

The EBSCO Discovery Service brings together a comprehensive collection of content from major collections and provides a full-featured, customisable discovery layer experience.

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

DPLA/Europeana Query

Creative industries api Rest-API

DPLA/Europeana Query from Spanish software company Digibis allows simultaneous searching of Europeana and DPLA and presents key object information in a clear and easy to use format

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Tea Trail London

Creative industries tourism

Tea Trail London brings out the historic stories of tea in a variety of fascinating London places including museums, shops and tea houses.

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Food Planet

Creative industries api games

Food Planet is a free game where players challenge each other in guessing the country of origin of different food, drinks and ingredients.

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Nightingale and Canary animated short

Creative industries Film / Video

Australian artist Andy Thomas specializes in creating ‘audio life forms’: beautiful abstract shapes that react to sounds. In this animated short, he visualizes two recorded bird sounds from the archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Europeana Aggregation Landscape explorer

Cultural Heritage Institutions api

The aim of this site is to help you to find out who from particular country is delivering data to Europeana and which metadata aggregators are active in this country.

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Tool Updated: 16 November 2017

EEXCESS Wordpress Plugin

Creative industries api Rest-API

The Wordpress plugin from EEXCESS provides users with contextual content from cultural and scientific databases to insert into their blog posts

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Tool Updated: 16 November 2017

EEXCESS Google Chrome browser extension

Creative industries api Rest-API

The Google Chrome browser extension from EEXCESS provides users with automatic recommendations from cultural and scientific databases

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Creative Commons Search

Creative industries api

CC Search helps users find content they can share, use, and remix from multiple platforms, including Europeana.

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

DPLA & Europeana Search Form WordPress plugin

Creative industries api

This Wordpress plugin allows users to add a Europeana or DPLA search form to their Wordpress site using a sidebar widget.

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Tool Updated: 15 November 2017

Colada PHP Client Library

Creative industries api Rest-API library

This client library for PHP was developed independently by Matthias Vandermaesen.

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Data Updated: 18 January 2018

Vintage photographs of Vienna

Collections Creative industries architecture history tourism geodata Photographs German Austria

Historical photographs of the famous Ringstrasse carefully curated by the Austrian National Library for the street's 150th anniversary.

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Image Similarity Search Service

Creative industries api

The Image Similarity Search tool is allowing users to navigate image repositories basing of the visual similarity of the content and using a text-free interaction.

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Meath Heritage

Creative industries api

Meath Heritage website allows you to discover over 3000 Monuments and Heritage sites in County Meath, Ireland. Through the integration of the Europeana API, users can now also explore related content from Europeana.

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Data Updated: 12 September 2017

Bookplates from the Romanian National Library

Collections Creative industries bookplates library Books Drawings Romanian Romania

90 historical bookplates from the 16th century up to the early 20th century.

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Data Updated: 12 September 2017

Military maps and drawings from the Spanish Ministry of Defence

Collections Creative industries maps drawings history geodata Drawings Maps Spanish; Castilian Spain 18th Century 19th Century 1900-1945

A fine collection of around 3,000 18th- to 20th-century maps and drawings from the archives of the Spanish Ministry of Defence.

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Data Updated: 14 September 2017

Historical fashion drawings, prints and patterns

Collections Creative industries fashion drawings prints patterns Drawings Periodicals Prints Dutch; Flemish Belgium 19th Century

Over 2,000 historical fashion drawings and prints, as well as sewing and embroidery patterns.

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Data Updated: 12 September 2017

Historical collections and toys from Deventer Museums

Collections Creative industries history paintings Paintings Dutch; Flemish Netherlands

The collections of the Historical Museum Deventer and the Deventer Toy Museum, including more than 37,000 items of local art, toys, product packages and textile designs, as well as many other historical and archaeological artefacts.

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Data Updated: 12 September 2017

Life in a 20th-century Dutch county

Collections Creative industries photographs Photographs Dutch; Flemish Netherlands 1945 Onwards

Almost 10,000 archival (black-and-white) photographs of the Dutch Eemland region, showing cities, events and daily life.

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Data Updated: 12 September 2017

Famous manuscripts and notebooks from the British Library

Collections Creative industries manuscripts illustrations Manuscripts English Medieval History United Kingdom Medieval

An incredible collection of more than 33,000 (illuminated) manuscripts from the 4th century onwards, including pages from Leonardo da Vinci's notebook and illustrations for Mandeville's travels.

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Data Updated: 12 September 2017

Dutch heritage in a nutshell

Collections Creative industries artefacts illustrations Drawings Dutch; Flemish Netherlands

An extensive and striking variety of more than 71,000 documents of Dutch ethnographic, scientific, cultural, popular and colonial heritage.

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Data Updated: 23 May 2018

Wiki loves Swedish monuments

Collections Creative industries photographs tourism wikimedia Photographs Swedish Sweden

More than 14,000 contributions by users to the Wikimedia Commons' Wiki Loves Monuments project, showing Sweden's natural, architectural and historical monuments in all their beauty.

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Data Updated: 12 September 2017

Manuscript illuminations from the Austrian National Library

Collections Creative industries art drawings natural-history manuscripts Drawings Manuscripts German Austria

More than 200 illustrations from codices on swordsmanship and natural history.

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Data Updated: 12 September 2017

Daily life in the South of Sweden

Collections Creative industries photographs history tourism architecture Photographs Swedish Sweden 1900-1945

Over 27,000 black-and-white pictures from the collection of Malmö Museer, showing working life, daily activities, interior design and architecture in early 20th-century South Sweden (Skåne).

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British Library book illustrations

Collections Creative industries art drawings prints natural-history Books Drawings Maps Sheet Music English United Kingdom 19th Century

Over 62,000 book illustrations from the British Library, ranging from maps and etches to drawings and sheet music.

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19th and 20th-century Lithuania in photographs

Collections Creative industries photographs history tourism architecture Photographs Lithuanian Lithuania 19th Century 1900-1945

A rich collection of more than 20,000 historic photos preserved at various Lithuanian museums. Taken between 1838 and 1939, they depict scenes from village life and Lithuanian ethnography, as well as historical images of cities and architectural monuments.

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Swedish churches and archaeological sites

Collections Creative industries architecture photographs history Drawings Photographs Swedish Religious Sweden

More than 137,000 colour and black-and-white photographs documenting the diversity of Swedish church architecture, interiors, ritual objects, frescoes and all kinds of religious art.

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WWI text posters from Austria-Hungary

Collections Creative industries history first-world-war Posters German Austria Hungary 1900-1945

More than 6,500 text posters from all parts pf the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy including the important Emperor manifestos, announcements managing mobilisation, administration and shortages with information on dates and places.

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WWI photographs from Austria-Hungary

Collections Creative industries photographs history first-world-war Photographs German Military History Austria Hungary 1900-1945

More than 37,000 photographs illustrating the Great War at the eastern and south eastern front, the back country and further areas of the former Monarchy.

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Data Updated: 23 May 2018

User contributed content - pictures of Swedish Monuments

Collections Creative industries architecture tourism photographs wikimedia Photographs Swedish Sweden

A small collection of nearly 60 colour photographs of Swedish architectural or natural monuments, representing the outcome of a Wikimedia Sweden re-photography contest.

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The rich history and collections of the University of Edinburgh

Collections Creative industries history natural-history photographs drawings Documents Drawings Letters & Diaries Manuscripts English United Kingdom Multiple Eras

More than 3,500 historical documents relating to the history and collections of the University of Edinburgh - from illuminated manuscripts, anatomical drawings and honorific medals to personal letters, travel reports and student registers.

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Portrait Collection of the Austrian National Library

Collections Creative industries history paintings prints Paintings Prints German Austria Early Modern

More than 150,000 portraits from the Austrian National Library including European and non-European regent dynasties, divided into categories like popes, emperors, kings, nobles, Austrian dukes and other kings.

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Photographs of places and buildings in Estonia

Collections Creative industries photographs tourism architecture Photographs Estonian Estonia

Around 100 colour photographs of different places and buildings in Estonia, such as churches, graveyards, schools and castles.

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Data Updated: 13 September 2017

Music and songs in Yiddish

Collections Creative industries music sounds Audio Yiddish France

Almost 700 old recordings of instrumental music and songs in Yiddish from the Bibliothèque Medem - Maison de la Culture Yiddish.

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Medieval manuscripts and parchment fragments from Finland

Collections Creative industries manuscripts history Manuscripts Finland Medieval

More than 1,600 high-resolution Medieval manuscripts and parchment fragments with Latin texts in pdf format, ranging from breviaries and liturgical calendars to psalters, from the The Fragmenta Membranea Collection of The National Library of Finland.

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Historical views and landscapes of Europe from the Austrian National Library

Collections Creative industries history tourism architecture Drawings Paintings German Austria

More than 3,500 topographical recordings, images of cities, villages, buildings, architecture, landscapes and pictures of natural events from the areas of the former Austrian crown-lands, but also from modern day Germany, Italy, France, England, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands.

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Everyday life in a Dutch provincial city - Apeldoorn in black-and-white pictures

Collections Creative industries history photographs Photographs Dutch; Flemish Netherlands 1900-1945

More than 30,000 black-and-white pictures showing occasions from everyday life in the Dutch city of Apeldoorn, from traditional holidays and official openings to groups of construction workers at their site.

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Everyday life in a Dutch city - Den Bosch in historical pictures and postcards

Collections Creative industries history photographs tourism Photographs Postcards Dutch; Flemish Netherlands 1900-1945 1945 Onwards

More than 56,000 pictures and postcards showing the day-to-day life of the inhabitants of the Dutch city of Den Bosch - shops, houses, celebrations, local dignitaries and ice-skating parties.

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Dutch buildings through the ages

Collections Creative industries history tourism architecture photographs geodata Photographs Dutch; Flemish Netherlands Multiple Eras

More than 480,000 pictures (colour and black-and-white) of Dutch buildings of various kinds and different periods in time, from windmills and monasteries to train stations and shops.

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Photographs of Swedish historical buildings

Collections Creative industries architecture tourism geodata photographs Photographs Swedish Sweden

A compact collection of nearly 30 colour photographs of Swedish historical buildings, from royal palaces and churches to lighthouses.

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Data Updated: 18 October 2017

User contributed content relating to the events of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe.

Collections Creative industries 1989 history Documents Photographs Posters Polish Poland 1945 Onwards

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 1989 history Documents Photographs Posters Lithuanian Lithuania 1945 Onwards

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 1989 history Documents Letters & Diaries Photographs Latvian Latvia 1945 Onwards

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 Letters & Diaries Photographs Prints Estonian Estonia 1945 Onwards

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 Paintings Slovak Religious Slovakia Early Modern

A collection of more than 2,300 sculptures, wooden engravings and paintings from Slovakia.

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Photographs of buildings in Iceland

Collections Cultural Heritage Institutions architecture geodata photographs Photographs Icelandic Iceland

A collection of about 500 photographs (in colour) of buildings in Iceland, including regular houses, lighthouses, and churches, provided through CARARE. The dataset has very rich object descriptions in Icelandic.

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Newsreels from Sound and Vision on the Netherlands in the 20th century

Collections Creative industries history video Film / Video Dutch; Flemish Netherlands 1900-1945 1945 Onwards

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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Historical photographs from the Netherlands

Collections Creative industries Photographs Ancient History Netherlands

More than 5,000 historical photographs from the Netherlands covering a variety of subjects. Provided by the Gemeentearchief Gemert-Bakel via Digitale Collectie.

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Data Updated: 14 September 2017

Haunting sketches and other pieces of art from Bulgaria

Collections Creative industries art drawings Drawings Bulgaria

A collection of about 7,000 items from Bulgaria, provided through the Athena Plus project. The collection includes a large number of sketches in different styles, mostly showing people.

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Estonian cultural heritage provided by Athena

Collections Creative industries design artefacts Documents Maps Photographs Estonia

Around 400 items from two Estonian institutions via Athena. The Järvakandi Klaasimuuseum provides glass objects, while the Conservation Centre Kanut / Kadriorg Art Museum provides a variety of objects, including maps, photographs, documents, medals, tools.

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Drawings and sketches from the National Library of Wales

Collections Creative industries drawings architecture Drawings English United Kingdom

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 social-networks design fashion artefacts Dutch; Flemish Netherlands Multiple Eras

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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3D models of Art Nouveau objects from the Isle of Man

Collections Creative industries art-nouveau artefacts English United Kingdom 1900-1945

3D models of everyday objects such as plates and candle holders. A collection of 60 models provided through the Partage Plus project.

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WWI collection of the Berlin State Library

Collections Creative industries first-world-war geodata Documents Photographs German Military History World War 1914-1918 Germany 1900-1945

A collection of more than 7,000 documents and images. In German.

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Data Updated: 14 September 2017

Works of art from the Rijksmuseum

Collections Creative industries art geodata Paintings Dutch; Flemish English Netherlands Multiple Eras

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: 8 September 2017

Scans of plants from the OpenUp! project

Collections Creative industries natural-history geodata Photographs English Slovakia

More than 4,000 scans of plants mounted on sheets from Institute of Botany of Slovak Academy of Sciences.

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Scans of plants from the OpenUp! project

Collections Creative industries natural-history Austria

More than 88,000 scans of plants mounted on sheets.

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Data Updated: 8 September 2017

Natural history objects from the OpenUp! project

Collections Creative industries natural-history geodata Photographs Czech Republic

More than 8,000 photographs of fossils, minerals, fishes and other natural history objects.

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Data Updated: 8 September 2017

WWI books from the British Library

Collections Creative industries geodata history first-world-war Books English Military History World War 1914-1918 United Kingdom 1900-1945

A collection of more than 600 books from the British Library with a thematic focus on WWI.

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Data Updated: 8 September 2017

Sounds of daily life and birds from Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision

Collections Creative industries social-networks geodata sounds Audio Dutch; Flemish Netherlands 1945 Onwards

A collection of about 2,500 sounds of daily life, birds, city sounds, airplanes etc.

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Data Updated: 8 September 2017

Pictures of glassware

Collections Creative industries design geodata artefacts Photographs Dutch; Flemish Netherlands 1900-1945 1945 Onwards

A collection of over 72,000 pictures of glassware such as bottles, glasses, vases and bowls. The collection also includes a large number of (technical) drawings of glassware.

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Data Updated: 8 September 2017

Photographs of soldiers during WWI

Collections Creative industries geodata history first-world-war photographs Photographs Slovak Military History World War 1914-1918 Slovakia 1900-1945

A collection of 50 photographs of soldiers in caves and trenches during WWI.

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Data Updated: 8 September 2017

Old handwritten documents from Scandinavia

Collections Creative industries geodata literature Documents Swedish Literature Sweden 19th Century

A collection of over 2,700 documents from the archives of the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland.

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Data Updated: 8 September 2017

Incunabula from Edinburgh

Collections Creative industries history prints Books German Latin Medieval History Medieval

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: 8 September 2017

Content collected during the Europeana 1914-1918 roadshows

Collections Creative industries history first-world-war Documents Letters & Diaries Photographs Postcards Military History 1900-1945

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: 8 September 2017

Calotypes and portraits from Edinburgh

Collections Creative industries history photographs landscapes Photographs English Western Europe United Kingdom

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: 14 September 2017

Butterflies, minerals and drawings from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin

Collections Creative industries natural-history Drawings Photographs English Germany

More than 18,000 drawings and photographs of butterflies, birds, minerals and fossils, with additional scientific information on scanned labels. In English with scientific names.

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Data Updated: 8 September 2017

Art and life on postcards and photographs from Girona

Collections Creative industries tourism geodata photographs postcards Photographs Postcards English French Spain Multiple Eras

A collection of more than 7,000 photographs and postcards from the late 19th and the beginning of the 20th century depicting the city of Girona and its inhabitants.

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Data Updated: 8 September 2017

Architectural drawings from Edinburgh

Collections Creative industries tourism architecture drawings Drawings English Western Europe United Kingdom

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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Data Updated: 7 September 2017

Archaeological Artefacts from the Institute of Balkan Studies and Thracology

Collections Creative industries tourism archaeology geodata Bulgarian Southern Europe Bulgaria

A collection of around 500 archaeological artefacts such as jewellery, pottery, vases and statutes from the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology. In Bulgarian.

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Popes on artwork, drawings and documents from the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands

Collections Creative industries history geodata Documents Drawings Paintings Prints Dutch; Flemish Religious Western Europe Netherlands Multiple Eras

A collection of around 1,000 drawings, prints and artworks of popes through the centuries and related documents. This is a subset of the Rijksmuseum dataset in Europeana.

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Data Updated: 7 September 2017

Photographs, Prints and Posters from the Biblioteca Valenciana Digital

Collections Creative industries photographs prints geodata Photographs Posters Spanish; Castilian Southern Europe Spain Multiple Eras

Almost 600 examples of photographs, prints and posters from the Biblioteca Valenciana Digital. In Spanish. This dataset also contains photographs from Barcelona.

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Data Updated: 7 September 2017

Natural History Art from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Collections Creative industries natural-history geodata Drawings Photographs Dutch; Flemish Western Europe Netherlands Multiple Eras

More than 75 paintings and drawings of flowers and animals from the collections of the Rijksmuseum. In Dutch. This is a subset of the Rijksmuseum dataset in Europeana.

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Maps and Drawings from the Catálogo Colectivo De La Red De Bibliotecas De Los Archivos Estatales

Collections Creative industries maps architecture history geodata Drawings Maps Spanish; Castilian Cartography Southern Europe Spain Multiple Eras

More than 7,000 maps, city plans & technical drawings from the Catálogo Colectivo de la Red de Bibliotecas de los Archivos Estatales. In Spanish.

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Data Updated: 7 September 2017

Maps and Drawings from the Biblioteca Virtual Del Patrimonio Bibliográfico

Collections Creative industries maps drawings history geodata Maps Spanish; Castilian Cartography Southern Europe Spain Multiple Eras

More than 4,000 maps and drawings from the Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico. In Spanish.

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Data Updated: 7 September 2017

Early Photographs from the Fondo Fotográfico De La Universidad De Navarra

Collections Creative industries photographs geodata Photographs Spanish; Castilian Southern Europe Spain 19th Century

More than 4,000 early photographs from 19th-century Spain in the collections of the Universidad de Navarra. In Spanish.

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Data Updated: 14 September 2017

Butterflies, moths, plants and mushrooms from the University of Tartu

Collections Creative industries natural-history Photographs English Latin Slovakia Multiple Eras

More than 40,000 butterflies, moths, plants and mushrooms from the Natural History Museum at the University of Tartu. In English with Latin species names.

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Data Updated: 7 September 2017

Beetles from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

Collections Creative industries natural-history Photographs English Latin Belgium

More than 4,000 photographs of beetles from the collections of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. In English with Latin species names.

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Battles on artwork and drawings from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Collections Creative industries history geodata drawings Drawings Paintings Prints Military History Western Europe Netherlands Multiple Eras

A collection of about 2,000 drawings, prints, paintings and other artworks of battles across Europe through the centuries.

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Europeana's pilot on Google's Field Trip app

Creative industries api

Europeana, Google's Niantic Labs and partner memory institutions in Austria, Sweden, Estonia and Poland have successfully completed a pilot project to integrate curated cultural content in Google's Field Trip app

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Historiana

Education api education history

Helping history educators inspire!

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Ajapaik / Timepatch

Creative industries api history

Ajapaik (translated from Estonian to English as 'Timepatch') is a location based site inviting users to look around and add metadata to historical images. It also adds a social and competitive element, with points awarded for contributions made.

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Showcase Updated: 13 September 2017

Culture Collage MS Office app

Creative industries api
The Culture Collage MS Office App allows easy embedding of images, together with their associated descriptions and license information, directly into documents such as Powerpoint presentations.
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Showcase Updated: 12 June 2020

VanGoYourself

Creative industries Education art

A way for visitors to engage with cultural heritage by recreating and sharing a painting or historic photo.

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Sound Connections

Creative industries api Audio
Explore sounds from across Europe and help enrich them with contextual information and audio-visual media.
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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Memory Match - Natural History edition

Creative industries Education api games Gaming
Memory Match – Natural History Edition, is an educational game combining the classic memory game of finding pairs with a quiz game testing player’s knowledge of natural history.
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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Serendip-o-matic

Creative industries api

Serendip-o-matic connects your sources to digital materials located in libraries, museums, and archives around the world.

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Kringla

Creative industries api
The online portal of the Swedish National Heritage Board (SOCH) www.kringla.nu allows users to search in both the national heritage repository 'SOCH' and the Europeana repository presenting the search results in different tabs.
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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica

Cultural Heritage Institutions api library
The National Library of Spain has implemented the Europeana API in their online portal, Biblioteca Digital Hispánica. The portal now enables their users to access related Europeana content via a single link on their search results header.
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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Museums.EU

Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries api

Museums.EU describes itself as "The European Museums Network intended to present and promote museums and cultural heritage across Europe".

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Showcase Updated: 23 May 2018

Wikimedia Batch Upload

Creative industries hackathon wikimedia

This prototype makes it possible to upload content to Wikimedia Commons from Europeana.

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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Twitter EuropeanaBot

Creative industries api
Inspired by the DPLABot, this implementation uses Europeana API to present semi-random images from Europeana collections on Twitter.
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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Royal Museum for Central Africa search

Cultural Heritage Institutions api Open-Search-API
The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium is one of Europeana's content providers. On their Plone powered website, they have made their contributed content searchable using the Europeana API.
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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Open Pics app

Creative industries api
This open source app allows search for images in multiple online collections, such as Europeana, New York Public Library, Library of Congress, California Digital Library, Digital Public Library of America, LIFE Magazine photo archive, National Library of Australia (Trove) and Flickr Commons.
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Showcase Updated: 3 November 2017

Digital NZ - National Library of New Zealand

Cultural Heritage Institutions api
The digital service of the National Library of New Zealand - Digital New Zealand (DigitalNZ) - uses the Europeana API (1.0) to harvest and locally store New Zealand-related Europeana records in their own aggregation.
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Showcase Updated: 6 November 2017

National Library of Ireland catalogue widget

Creative industries api

This interface allows simultaneous search of many of the Library's catalogued collections and displays results from Europeana using a sidebar widget.

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Title:

Achilles wordt ontdekt tussen de dochters van Lycomedes

Creator:

Gerard de Lairesse

Date:

1680

Institution:

Mauritshuis

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

Tool Updated: 20 May 2021

PATHSenrich

Creative industries R&D api Rest-API enrichment europeanatech

PATHSenrich is web service prototype developed by PATHS project which allows independent content providers to enrich their cultural heritage at item level.

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Showcase Updated: 6 November 2017

Inventing Europe

Education api education history
The Inventing Europe online platform is a pioneering collaboration between historians and cultural heritage institutions across Europe.
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Showcase Updated: 6 November 2017

Europeana Remix

Creative industries api World War 1914-1918

Inviting the viewer into the film

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