Europeana is Europe's digital platform for cultural heritage, providing online access to tens of millions of digitised items from cultural institutions across Europe - from books, photos and paintings to television broadcasts and 3D objects - opening up this shared cultural wealth and working to make it freely available for learning, for research, for creatives and for pleasure.
The content is accessible to all educators - via a detailed manual search and download, or by our REST API - from an educational developer who wishes to add our content to a digital educational resource to a teacher creating a one-off lesson plan.
Collections can be explored via Europeana.eu by time periods, sources, topic or colors, but also via thematic collections curating content by interest: Europeana Art, gathering almost 1.5m artworks; and Europeana Music, collecting more than 250,000 music-related collections; and Europeana Fashion, with more than 800,000 records, includes historical dresses, accessories and catwalk photographs.
The dedicated platform www.europeana1914-1918.eu provides access to unique WW1 content on all sides of the conflict, hosting 600,000+ objects from 24 countries in 15 languages. In addition to official material provided by cultural institutions, it offers a unique perspective on the human face of the conflict with 15,000 personal stories and over 200,000 digitised items gathered from public collection days and crowdsourcing events across Europe.
We regularly publish specially curated exhibitions, on topics ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to revolution and war.
As an Open Educational Resource we have worked with partners such as European Schoolnet to support educators with access to our content and you can find our content on platforms like historiana.eu and the Learning Resource Exchange. You can find out more about using Europeana4Education on our new education page. http://pro.europeana.eu/use-our-data/education