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FOUR DECADES OF THE TEXTILE CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION WORKSHOP
Ptuj Ormož Regional Museum
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France Prešeren in Anton Slomšek na filozofskem študiju C.-kr. liceja v Ljubljani
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BY EUROPEANA
02.11.2018
The beauty of birdsong: listen, remember, enjoy
Living in bustling cities we often tend to forget about nature, yet it is all around us and in many ways. Some of us might wake up in the morning to the sounds of a couple of birds singing while...
BY EUROPEANA
30.10.2018
Europe’s First Printed Book
How do we know what Europe’s first printed book was? Until the 18th century this question was open to speculation.15th-century printed books usually have no title page and do not always give the...
BY EUROPEANA
25.10.2018
Three Saints and the Art of Anamorphosis
Ross MacFarlane is a Research Development Specialist at London’s Wellcome Collection , a free museum and library exploring health, life and our place in the world. In this guest post, Ross explores...
BY EUROPEANA
24.10.2018
A Place to Call Home: Migration and Housing
Home is where we are safe. Home is where our loved ones are. When that home becomes unsafe, is it still home? If we move away from our loved ones, where is home then? How long does it take create a...
BY EUROPEANA
19.10.2018
A Path to Literacy – Role of the Catechism in Learning to Read
For Protestant and Catholic communities of the past, learning the basics of faith and the basics of reading went quite naturally hand in hand. But were all early catechisms necessarily intended as...
BY EUROPEANA
16.10.2018
Looking for Europe through Fashion Plates
For the #SalonEuropa blog parade, the curatorial team at European Fashion Heritage Association looks at how fashion plates have created and imagined European national identities. Fashion objects...
BY EUROPEANA
11.10.2018
Use of Propaganda in WWI Postcards
Millions of postcards circulated during the First World War and influenced public opinion. It is not surprising that something as ordinary as a postcard was used by governments on all sides to...
Center for Contemporary Arts Celje
10.10.2018
Urška Aplinc in Maja Burja: Variable, performans
Lepo vabljeni na performans v četrtek, 18. oktobra ob 18. uri v Galerijo sodobne umetnosti. »Variable je zasnovan kot avtopoetično, stalno razvijajoče se umetniško delo. Avtorici uporabljata...
BY EUROPEANA
01.10.2018
GIF IT UP 2018 – create animated GIFs from openly licensed cultural heritage material
Your favourite GIF-making competition is back! For the fifth time, from 1 – 31 October, all GIF-makers, cultural heritage enthusiasts and lovers of the internet are invited to create brand new...
BY EUROPEANA
27.09.2018
Arthurian Literature: Foundation for a Common History in Europe
No literary figure has stood the test of time quite like King Arthur . His story has inspired people across Europe for centuries. King Arthur: a Legendary Figure The earliest reference to Arthur...
BY EUROPEANA
25.09.2018
‘All of Europe is my country’ and other stories from Europeana Migration
Europeana Migration brings together digital collections dedicated to the theme of migration to, from and within Europe, sourced from both cultural heritage institutions and the public. When Museum...
BY EUROPEANA
21.09.2018
The nature of Turkestan – legacy of Ernst Kleiber
It was in January 2014 during our second series of Europeana 1914-1918 collection days in Berlin that a very special and unique contribution to our project was made: the richly-illustrated...
BY EUROPEANA
20.09.2018
The ‘Romance of the Rose’: A Medieval Guide to Love
This poem about living and loving in medieval courts was both very popular and controversial in the late Middle Ages and throughout the Renaissance. Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, ‘Le Roman...
BY EUROPEANA
13.09.2018
Banned Authors – who got on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum?
Many noteworthy authors were put on the Index librorum prohibitorum because their works were seen to cause religious, political and moral controversies. Famous names on the Roman Index include: ...
BY EUROPEANA
08.09.2018
International Literacy Day 2018 with Rise of Literacy project
Specimens of Calligraphy, Inglis, Esther; University of Edinburgh, CC BY On September 8, International Literacy Day , established by UNESCO, is celebrated around the world. This year’s theme...
BY EUROPEANA
07.09.2018
Back to school – historic school uniforms in Europeana Collections
If your social media feed is anything like mine, this week it’s been full of photographs of children dressed in school uniforms and big grins, ready for their first days at new schools. Their...
BY EUROPEANA
06.09.2018
The Correspondence of Heloise and Abelard: Love, Friendship and Philosophy in the Middle Ages
The blog is a part of the Rise of Literacy project , where we take you on an exploration of literacy in Europe thanks to the digital preservation of precious textual works from collections across...
Maribor Museum of National Liberation
03.09.2018
Razpis za razstavljanje v Fotografskem muzeju Maribor v letu 2019
Fotografski muzej Maribor, ki ima razstavne prostore na Koroški cesti 19, pripravlja občasni razstavni program za sezono 2019 . Število razstav v tem letu bo največ 10. Čas trajanja posamezne...
BY EUROPEANA
30.08.2018
Travelling texts: information networks of the past
The invention of printing in the middle of the 15th century gave rise to the cross-cultural flow of texts throughout Europe. But complex webs of connections also developed later. The 18 th -century...
BY EUROPEANA
23.08.2018
