Collections
Themes
Explore historical and contemporary fashion and how it influences our clothing, footwear, accessories and style. Discover sketches, designs and garments as well as catwalk photographs, catalogues and videos.
Explore the history of technology and industry, from the industrial revolution to stories of industrialists, economists and ordinary working lives.
Explore hand-crafted written materials from papyrus to paper. Discover texts, illuminations and the people behind them from antiquity to the early print era.
Explore the physical and human features of the Earth. Discover maps and map-makers, landscapes and the people who have explored them.
Features
Discover notable women and their work throughout history
Explore disability stories, narratives and heritage from Europe and beyond
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.
Latest galleries
This gallery is part of the OpenUp! 3D series that builds galleries around certain 3D objects. This time we chose a 3D digitized skull of a Mandrill (Mandrillus Squinx) of the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona. Mandrills are omnivores and live in Centra…
Whether in the home or in a workplace, women's work has long been overlooked. This gallery of photographs and paintings presents women at work, raising questions of equality, rights and work-life balance.
Since 1901, 60 women have been awarded a Nobel Prize. From first-ever winner Marie Curie to more recent winners, this gallery celebrates outstanding accomplishments in Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Literature and Peace. Curated by the Europeana XX project…
Portraits of poets, authors, journalists and writers from across Europe.
Organisations
Recent items
Mobilier National Collections
Malmö Museum
University of Tartu, Natural History Museum