Collections

Explore our collection by theme, topic, century, and institution.

Themes

Explore printed publications from 1618 to the 1980s. Discover headlines, full-text articles, advertisements, and the writers behind them.

Photography

Explore the history of photography, discover incredible images and find out about the photographers behind them.

Sport

Explore the history of sport and sports people, with photographs, films, sound recordings and texts documenting everything from everyday experiences to the heights of Olympic glory.

World War I

Explore the events of 1914-1918 through official histories, politics and propaganda to untold personal stories from the front line and the home front.

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Topics

Features

Women's history

Discover notable women and their work throughout history

Disability heritage

Explore disability stories, narratives and heritage from Europe and beyond

a black and white photograph of a man sitting behind a loom-like device that has multiple threads coming down into the spine of a book. The man is in the process of threading a new page through the threads to add to the book.

Making Culture

Heritage showing how artisans and crafters have shaped and remade culture through the ages

Colouring books

Find your crayons! Sharpen your coloured pencils! And enjoy adding colours in one of the books we have prepared for you.

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Centuries

Latest galleries

Twin it! A pan-European collection of heritage 3D models

Explore 3D models of buildings, sites and objects from across Europe. The Twin it! 3D for Europe’s culture campaign, by the European Commission and the Europeana Initiative, invited European Union Member States to select and share at least one emblematic…

Women in the media

This gallery - curated under the Watching Videos Like a Historian project - features audiovisual heritage material around women in the media.

Ancient Rome as seen in the media

This gallery - curated under the Watching Videos Like a Historian project - features audiovisual heritage material related to Ancient Rome as seen in the media.

Costume drawings

The starting point for a costume idea is an intensive study of the film script. After extensive research into the milieu and the period, the costume designer develops sketches, which later serve as visual material for the director, the set designer and m…

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