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Title:
A visitor in the 'Discovering & Inventing' gallery of the EPIC museum
Date:
2020.07.29.
Institution:
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
Country:
Ireland
Copyright:
CC BY-NC-SA
News Created: 11 August 2020 Nathan Mannion Susan Hazan
Opening doors at EPIC and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Discovering-europe
In July, Europeana held its first ‘Lunch Café’ on the theme of ‘Opening Doors’, encouraging discussion around the re-opening of cultural heritage institutions. In this post, Nathan Mannion and Susan Hazan, who led the Café, reflect on re-opening at their own institutions.
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Title:
Alexander Archipenko, Two women, 1920 (paper mask)
Creator:
Photo by Dušan Radovanović
Date:
July 2020
Institution:
National Museum in Belgrade
Country:
Serbia
Copyright:
CC BY-NC-SA
News Created: 6 August 2020 Tamara Butigan
Turning digital art into designer face masks
Discovering-europe
As part of our Discovering Europe season, last week we explored how cultural heritage institutions across Europe are starting to open their doors. In this post, Tamara Butigan takes a look at a special reopening initiative from two Serbian museums who are using digitised art from their collections on face masks, offering people a new and timely way to engage with their content. 
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Title:
Wieczne Lato 2019, in copyright
Creator:
Bartek Syta
Date:
2019
Institution:
FINA
Country:
Poland
News Created: 30 July 2020 Beth Daley
Reopening means rethinking - examples to inspire and inform
discovering-europe
Lockdown came upon us all fast. Within just a few weeks, almost all museums, libraries, archives and galleries closed. Now, things are beginning to reopen, but opening the doors is much more complicated than closing them. Here, as part of our #DiscoveringEurope series, we look at some useful, imaginative and inspiring examples from cultural institutions around Europe.
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