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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 Virgínia Quaresma
Virgínia Quaresma, Portugal's first female reporter

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 woman 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

Bernardo Bonezzi, Carlos Berlanga and Pedro Almodovar in the programme 'La edad de oro'.
Spanish counterculture during the Transition
a woman dressed in a pink top and ochre-coloured apron carries an unfired clay sculpture to a workbench in a quaint workshop, light filtering in through windows on the left.
How the Cyprus Handicraft Service is sharing artisan stories with the world

An interview on the values of craft with the director of the Crafting Cyprus documentary series, fashion critic and curator, Filep Motwary

colourful painting showing buildings on a lake shore with forested hills behind
Gustav Klimt and Attersee

How an Austrian lake inspired his art

cropped image, a black and white sketch of a man sitting beside a woman on a sofa
Ernst Welker, painter and traveller

Exploring a curious collection of portraits by a landscape artist

black and white photograph of an outdoor, abstract sculpture
Henry Moore across Europe

Public art in European locations by the British sculptor

How Audre Lorde made Black and feminist history in Germany and beyond

Exploring the author's salient legacy

Saint Maurice

A Black saint with mythical origins and a contested history