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16/06/2026

On the occasion of Science activities at Europeana this year, we’d like to invite you to take part in our Science Transcribathon Run this summer, together with Europeana Transcribe, the crowdsourcing platform for European cultural heritage. The Run will take place between 15 June and 30 September.

For this run, we have selected a number of scientific letters, research documents and manuscripts to transcribe, enrich and describe, including works of the naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer, and many more!

Learn more about the Science Run and other upcoming science-related activities:

Transcribing of historical documents

12/06/2026

Looking for design inspiration that doesn't look like everyone else's?

Three nostalgic design trends are having a major moment, and they all draw from cultural heritage: trinket design, future medieval and neoclassical revival.

Our latest tutorial walks you through what each trend is, what it looks like, and exactly how to recreate it using Europeana's collections - free to use and full of images you simply won't find on stock sites.

✂️ Trinket design: treat your canvas like a display case, arrange objects in archive-like grids 🏰 Future medieval: sacred-looking visuals, illuminated borders, mythic beasts layered into modern contexts 🖼️ Neoclassical revival: use real Baroque paintings as backgrounds for a sense of luxury and history

The best part? Over 30 million items on Europeana are freely usable. All you need to do is search, download and create.

👉 Read the full tutorial: https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/how-to-pay-homage-to-the-past-with-three-nostalgic-design-trends

Made something? We'd love to see it! Share it with us at [email protected]

10/06/2026

Today marks 100 years since Antoni Gaudí died in Barcelona.

He spent his final years devoted entirely to the Sagrada Família, a building he knew he would never see completed. A man of action, not words, as he said himself in 1913: "My hours have been spent in my work."

We've gathered 40 items from his life and buildings in a dedicated gallery on Europeana, from the Sagrada Família to the floor tiles of Casa Milà, designed with octopuses, snails and starfish. Because for Gaudí, nature was everywhere.

Explore the gallery: https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/27246-antoni-gaudi

09/06/2026

🌊 Under the sea, survival is a team sport.

Coral reefs are home to at least 25% of all ocean species, and the relationships keeping them alive are stranger and more clever than you might think. Chemical distress signals, mutually beneficial living arrangements, toxins as armour.

Explore how underwater species have adapted for survival, and what symbiosis really looks like in practice. This post would not have been possible without contributions from the Wellcome Collection!

09/06/2026

🌊 Under the sea, survival is a team sport.

Coral reefs are home to at least 25% of all ocean species, and the relationships keeping them alive are stranger and more clever than you might think. Chemical distress signals, mutually beneficial living arrangements, toxins as armour.

Explore how underwater species have adapted for survival, and what symbiosis really looks like in practice. This post would not have been possible without contributions from the Wellcome Collection

05/06/2026

🌍 Today is World Environment Day. It's a moment to ask ourselves what signal we're sending back to a planet in crisis.

Some people respond with action. Some with science. Some with words.

The Europeana Climate Action Community acknowledges that climate change is an emergency and believes that cooperative action is required to reverse this momentum. By inviting writers to create new works reflecting or inspired by cultural heritage material, we offer ideas, hopes for our futures, and potential directions for us all to think further about.

Humans - and our planet itself - are adaptable. There is time to change. There is still opportunity to engage society in this crisis and show what humans are capable of in coming together and evoking change.

For the Europeana Creative Climate Action Award, we asked participants for up to 500 words of creative writing, fiction or poetry inspired by one or more of the images in our Europeana Creative Climate Action Award gallery, curated by the Europeana Climate Action Community. The winners and the images that inspired them are published in this exhibition.

The results are quietly powerful.

👉 Read the winning entries: https://www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitions/europeana-creative-climate-action-award-2026

03/06/2026

🚲 Happy World Bicycle Day!

The UN declared today to celebrate the bicycle as a simple, affordable, clean and sustainable means of transport, and honestly, Europeans have needed no convincing. Our collections are full of proof.

We've gathered 66 images of bikes and bikers from across Europeana: portraits, caricatures, race photographs and countryside rides. Turns out the love for cycling is very well documented!

👉 Full gallery: https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/9143-cycling

29/05/2026

Are you involved in preparing, managing, or delivering cultural heritage metadata for publication on Europeana.eu?​ If you're a cultural heritage professional, data provider, or aggregator, you know that the quality of your metadata is key to making your collections findable, usable, and impactful. ​

J​oin our training course​ on the Europeana METIS Sandbox.​ The Metis Sandbox is a test environment for your data. It consists of a set of tools with which you can simulate ingesting and running the Metis workflow on your data, see what your records would look like on Europeana.eu, and get insight into the quality of your records.

During the training, you’ll mostly be working with data that we have prepared specifically for the purpose of this training. But you will also have the possibility to run your own data and analyse the results. If you are interested, please prepare a collection of at most 50 records that satisfy EDM specifications.

The training will take place online on Zoom and will not be recorded. You will receive a link a few days before the training.​ Each training is an intensive and interactive exercise.

​Whether you're preparing a new dataset or looking to improve existing records, this course will help you generate better visibility and greater engagement for your institution’s collections. ​Order your FREE ticket now! https://pretix.eu/Europeana-Foundation/metissandbox-june2026/

28/05/2026

As part of the , a Manchester City of Literature project MCRCityofLit, join our event ‘Inspiring new writing with Europeana.eu’

Find out how to use Europeana.eu’s vast database of European digital culture heritage to enhance your writing and research practice. Choose from millions of images, sounds, videos and texts to create inspiring writing prompts, or search the database to find answers to your research questions.

And as the Festival of Libraries is partnering with the city of Barcelona this year, we’ll also explore some Barcelona-inspired creative writing prompts together - join in via your smartphone or web browser.

🗓️ Thursday 11 June, 12–1pm
💻 Online
🆓 Free
👉 Register: https://pretix.eu/Europeana-Foundation/Inspiringnewwriting-june2026/

27/05/2026

📢 This June, take part in two live online training sessions from Europeana Academy, created to help professionals, researchers, educators and communicators unlock the full potential of the collections available through europeana.eu and the ! 🌍✨

👉 16 June 2026 — Introduction to collections, audiences and stories on Europeana.eu
Learn practical ways to search, use and share data, while engaging effectively with audiences on the platform.
🔗 Register: https://pretix.eu/Europeana-Foundation/collections-and-stories-June2026/

👉 18 June 2026 — How to tell great stories and write for Europeana.eu
Explore techniques for and start shaping your own editorial concepts with confidence.
🔗 Register: https://pretix.eu/Europeana-Foundation/tellgreatstories-June2026/

Both sessions are held online as part of the Europeana Academy programme. Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your skills and connect with fellow heritage professionals across Europe! 🎓🌐