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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If you want to know what was it like to live in the Florence of 1400, to discover how the monks of Novacella Monastery begun to produce wine or to trace the development of a public institution,...