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black and white illustration of a woman crying into a curtain
Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre - as illustrated by Paula Rego

Artworks inspired by stories and literature, girlhood and feminism

A wooden rack with bundles of wool dyed in different colours hanging and drying.
A journey to Le Mobilier National

Navigating between contemporary creation, traditional know-how and conservation

colour painting, .a painter sits on a tree trunk with palette and brushes in hand and the painter's box with the painting on his knees. His hat and crutch lie in the grass next to the tree. In front of him are sheep and a cow in the meadow.
How artists have painted cows

Artistic moo-vements

a woman with white hair and black clothing sits in front of old wooden looms and colourful tapestry slung over wooden beams.
Greek crafts, Greek identity

Four videos showing how Greek identities are embodied by the craft of weaving, weaving together past, present and future

collage image of three logos of the three European Capitals of Culture for 2023
European Capitals of Culture in 2023

Exploring Elefsina, Timișoara and Veszprém

black and white photograph of a young man playing a piano
Musical movements, migrating composers

How contemporary composers moved within Europe in the 20th century

Museums of the Year in Europe in 2022 and 2023
Museums of the Year in Europe in 2022 and 2023

Celebrating award-winning cultural heritage institutions

black and white photograph, a group of men hold the Mona Lisa painting
Did Picasso steal the Mona Lisa?

A famous artist on trial for a shocking crime

colour poster with headline word ESPERANTO showing figures sitting on a flying winged horse
How Esperanto started and developed

The history of a new international language

a black and white picture of a smiling man standing in a small store that is filled with paper-mache animal silhouettes, sticking out of the walls and standing on shelves above his head.
Meet the artisan creating a zoo of animals out of paper

A chat with Roberto Capone, paper-mâché craftsman

A wooden polychrome triptych consisting of three panels hinged together with painted scenes
Reading symbols on European medieval objects

Learn about the symbolic significance of medieval imagery

cropped black and white photograph portrait of Virginia Quaresma
Virgínia Quaresma, Portugal's first female journalist

Mixed race and lesbian writer and activist who fought for equality

cropped colour photograph of a red, black and pink badge with words London Friend on a wooden table
London Friend, the UK's oldest LGBTQ+ charity

50 years of community support and services

Camera lenses

Through the looking glass: the birth of analogue photography and animation.

Europeana Advent Calendar 2022

Brighten up December with cultural heritage!

Fiat, the Agnellis and the Italian automotive industry
Jackek Kaminski, a Polish present-day shoe artisan, stand in a grey suit among shelves on either side and above him, all filled with brown wooden shoe molds.
The workshop of a master shoe craftsman

Jacek Kamiński and his family have been artfully crafting shoes in Warsaw for over seventy years

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Nicolae Ceaușescu

The first and only Romanian President with a sceptre

How hats went from mandatory to optional fashion accessories

Hats for women were wildly popular, until they weren't. Find out what happened to women's headwear throughout the last century!

Photo from a 2017 Black Lives Matter demo in Berlin. The women in the centre holds a poster that says: "Generation ADEFRA / black feminists say NO to racism, misogyny, homo-/transphobia, trumpism, fascism!"
Black European movements and mobilisations

How three organisations promote Black participation in politics