Collections

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

Themes

Explore artefacts and excavations, and discover archaeologists and their study of human history and prehistory.

Explore artists and art movements, and discover stories about the history of art and its paintings, drawings, engravings and sculptures.

Fashion

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.

Industrial Heritage

Explore the history of technology and industry, from the industrial revolution to stories of industrialists, economists and ordinary working lives.

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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…

Bruges during the 19th century

Including well-known buildings such as the Belfry, Saint John’s Hospital and the city gates, the women at the fish market, the people posing in front of their houses, coal merchants walking along the streets and more, this gallery reminds us that Bruges w…

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.

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