Galleries
Even in antiquity, great celebrations always included music and alcohol and were big social events. Check out these artifacts showing what entertainment looked like in ancient times!
Photographs of European Monuments Façades
Fashion Illustration Drawings of the 20th Century
Summer in Europe is a time of sunshine, relaxation and holidays. These vintage photographs are a snapshot, showing how we have spent our summer days in the past. Gallery curated by Larissa Borck, Swedish National Heritage Board.
Realistic still lifes are associated with Caravaggio, whose paintings contain many allegorical themes. This fine art genre flourished in 17th century Dutch and Flemish painting. At that time, still life painters often painted only one specific type of sti…
International Dance Day - 29 April. Before the invention of written languages, dance played an important role in passing stories from generation to generation. The ongoing tradition of dance has continued into the modern era and continues to play a great …
International Children's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world on various dates throughout the year. The first was held in Turkey on April 23, 1920. In Hungary, it was kept on the first Sunday of June between 1950 and 1953, and since th…
The cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) brings our 3D series to a close. The gallery contains two 3D models: a complete skeleton and a skull. This fish-eating bird is an accomplished diver and can be found throughout Europe, parts of Asia, and North America, …
This gallery is part of our 3D series and features two different 3D objects accompanied by images, artwork, audio and video materials. The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is a majestic creature, often admired for its elegance. Depictions of the Golden Ea…
Dance, Motion graphics, Music, Expos, Interactive, Video Art, Kinetic, Mapping, Animation, Cinema.
Paintings of the landscapes and landmarks of Europe showing the variety and beauty of this great continent
Since 1985, more than 60 cities across Europe have held the European Capital of Culture title.
Some artists, designers and architects that were part of the Cubist movement in Prague at the beginning of the 20th century. The painters Emil Filla, Bohumil Kubišta and Antonín Procházka; the sculptor Otto Gutfreund; the architects and designers Pavel J…
Street art turns the walls of our cities into open-air galleries. It combines graffiti, stencils, frescoes and collages. Each work tells a story, denounces an injustice or celebrates the beauty of the moment. The artists give a voice to the walls and make…
The working class group gathers men and women who work with their hands. They often work in factories, workshops or sites. Working class groups build and maintain an important part of our society : buildings, roads, machines and objects of our daily life.…
Some objects from Emperor Rudolf II's cabinet of curiosities and the artists, craftsmen and scientists who served him.
Since 2007, the Cyrillic alphabet has been an official script of the European Union and is used today in Bulgaria and in other countries. The complex history of the Cyrllic alphabet dates back to the 9th and 10th centuries, intertwined with many countries…
Fixtures and space design lighting
The Regional Archaeological Museum on the Scheldt (RAMS) houses the largest collection of archaeological finds from the West Flemish part of the Scheldt Valley. It focuses on objects dating from the Stone Ages, through the Romans to the time of the Merovi…
Scroll through these amateur, documentary and feature films of weddings and wedding anniversaries throughout the time. The festivities were a much welcomed occasion to capture on camera ever since people started filming. Be it royalty or civilians, explor…
Animated films come to life in various forms, including puppet animation, cut-out animation, silhouettes, claymation, stop-motion, hand-drawn techniques, and CGI. This genre, as old as cinema itself, is beloved worldwide. The artists behind these masterpi…
Happy people and big promises define the world of advertising. Film hasn't just been used to entice consumers to buy products; movies themselves also need promotion, often through film posters or cinema magazines.
Visit European destinations from the comfort of your home - and maybe find inspiration for your next holiday trip!
This collection includes historical postcards from Vojvodina and Banat that I assembled as part of the project "Semiotic Landscapes in Multilingual Border Regions" by FSU Jena and the Institute of Balkan Studies Belgrade. They form a reference f…