Galleries
Exploring street art and graffiti from across Europe
Showing support and remembering sporting events through everyday objects.
Curated by National Library of Serbia, this gallery explores the Sokol movement - a gymnastics organisation founded in Prague in the late 19th century which was popular across Slavic regions, and supported religious tolerance and gender equality.
Discover vintage photographs from different times in history showing gymnasts from across Europe.
Discover vintage photography of athletics, with track and field events, races and athletes from across Europe. Gallery curated for the Europeana Sport project
Explore these images and films of surfing and windsurfing from cultural heritage collections across Europe. Gallery curated for the Europeana Sport project
Drag performers play with gender expression, and ideas of masculinity and femininity. Explore these images of drag from cultural heritage collections across Europe.
Discover in this gallery the symbols, the texts, the architecture and the traditions of Buddhism around the World.
Founded in Moscow, the Habima theatre company dreamed of a Jewish cultural renaissance through Hebrew. They moved to Tel Aviv in 1931 and became the national theatre in 1958. Today its iconic building at Habima Square is a cultural hotspot. Curated by XX …
Explore vintage photography of football teams across Europe. Curated for the Europeana Sport project
Dress up like an astronaut, make space shuttle chocolates, build your own rocket or send a Smurf to Mars! Space traveling is cutting-edge science but can also be serious fun. This gallery is bound to leave you smiling. Curated by XX Partners
In this gallery, discover full texts of masterpieces of world literature on Europeana - from medieval manuscripts to contemporary books.
A woman wearing a suit is a political statement. In the 1970s and 1980s, power suits and other attire became a way for women to establish their authority in a male-dominated world. Curated by Europeana XX project partners.
Vänern in Sweden is the largest lake in the European Union. This gallery of photographs and objects explores the lake and region's cultural and social heritage.
If it wasn't for the cunning rat, the ox would have won the race in the Chinese fable of the Great Race, which pitted all of the animals of the zodiac against each other. Oxen have been used for transport and agriculture by humans since 4000 BCE.
Chess is a board game with a long history. In this gallery, discover players, pieces and papers relating to chess from across Europe.
We sliced up some of China’s most popular fruits into this colourful gallery. Curated by PAGODE partners
Amphitheaters were elliptical monumental buildings used in Roman times for public performances. The morning was the time for venationes, forms of entertainment that involved hunting and killing wild animals; gladiator games were held in the afternoon.
Explore these statues and sculptures inspired by sports, athletes and bodies in motion.
Explore this illustrated version of Schiller's Ode to Joy poem
People have bought and sold goods at markets for centuries. Explore these paintings, photographs and more of markets across Europe.
Paintings, photographs and drawing of landmarks and locations around Scotland
Filled with diverse archaeological traces, southeastern Romania is an exciting area to explore, on ground level or from an aerial perspective. The pictures cover a period of over 8,000 years of anthropic activities that have continuously shaped the landsc…
A gallery of obelisks composed of drawings and pictures of these enigmatic monuments connected to ancient Egypt. These were realised by painters and drawers in the last centuries and are preserved in prestigious European institutions.