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March is Women's History Month and Europeanaeu is featuring inspiring women in history using cultural heritage material from institutions across Europe. Discover 5 ways to get involved

Swedish artist Åke Waldemar Larsson has created a huge number of artworks depicting day to day life in the city of Malmö, and the beauty, energy and rhythms of our working lives.

With the mass movements of the Jewish diaspora to Israel from Europe and beyond, familes brought their stories, trinkets, customs and photographs. This blog presents a selection of photographs from The Israel Museum that points to the stories of migration

colour photograph, a group of people wearing carnival costumes

This carnival banishing winter is one of Hungary’s oldest and most famous carnival traditions

Explore the myths and reality of this famous figure

Preserves and shares the rich history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities

CrowdHeritage is an open platform available in three languages (English, French, Italian), where everybody - including you - can contribute to improve the information about cultural heritage institutions’ collections.

The evolution of Greek bridal couture

Many of us know Pythagoras' theory, but how many of us know the story of the man behind the theory?

Celebrated Dutch artist Piet Mondrian is a pioneer of 20th century abstract art who lived in Paris, London and New York, with his art reflecting his migrations

Reflecting the movement of Asian people and culture across the world

colour painting of a tree on a mountain with a lake landscape behind

Beautiful landscapes from the 'Golden Age of Finnish art'

Music mirroring the movement of people in Ireland, Greece and Portugal

From crimes of passion and criminal gangs, explore these true crime stories about trials and criminals in early 20th century France

Let's take a tour, illustrated with digitised cultural heritage collections from around Europe and discover some interesting connections.

black and white photograph of a book open in braille

Explore objects relating to braille writing system found in museums, libraries and archives' collections across Europe.

The Copa Nadal (Christmas Cup) is a Christmas Day swimming competition in which swimmers race 200 metres in the Old Port of Barcelona.

The Romanian Revolution, in December 1989, violently brought an end of 42 years of Communist rule in Romania. In this blog, Cristina Roiu of The Romanian Academy Library remembers the Romanian revolution through experiences and memories shared at a number

painting of a boy and man working on an industrial machine.

Download our colouring book inspired by Europe's working lives

Photography of Eduards Kraucs documenting the construction of a dam