Collections

Explore our collection by theme, topic, century, and institution.

Themes

Humans have always moved from one place to another. Discover the stories of famous migrants and the journeys and lives of ordinary people to, from and within Europe.

Explore recordings, sheet music, instruments and musical styles, as well as composers and performers.

Explore the study of animals and plants through drawings, photographs and texts of specimens and the biologists and botanists who studied them.

Explore printed publications from 1618 to the 1980s. Discover headlines, full-text articles, advertisements, and the writers behind them.

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Features

Discover notable women and their work throughout history

Explore disability stories, narratives and heritage from Europe and beyond

a black and white photograph of a man sitting behind a loom-like device that has multiple threads coming down into the spine of a book. The man is in the process of threading a new page through the threads to add to the book.

Heritage showing how artisans and crafters have shaped and remade culture through the ages

Find your crayons! Sharpen your coloured pencils! And enjoy adding colours in one of the books we have prepared for you.

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Latest galleries

Explore 3D models of buildings, sites and objects from across Europe. The Twin it! 3D for Europe’s culture campaign, by the European Commission and the Europeana Initiative, invited European Union Member States to select and share at least one emblematic…

Art Nouveau posters from the famous art movement. The latter half of the 19th century saw an increase in print media and advertising. Explore more in our exhibition Art Nouveau - A Universal Style.

Voting and elections are an essential part of democracy and governance all around the world. This gallery of vintage photography from around Europe shows how we have voted over the years.

A gallery of beautiful parrots from Europeana - in paintings, sculpture and photography.

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Recent items

Maya Image Archive - Image database of the project "Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Maya" at the University of Bonn - Department of Anthropology of the Americas

The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities