Galleries

Curated by the project ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’.

Curated by the project ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’.

Explore these paintings, drawings and vintage photography of waterfalls

Be inspired by these yellow cultural heritage collections

Vintage photography and memorabilia showing histories of basketball across Europe

Artworks and vintage photography capturing a variety of experiences being a public transport passenger

Lithuanian-American communities are found across the United States. Explore these photographs of their sporting activities.

Barcelona artist Ramon Casas i Carbó sketched and painted evocative portraits of intellectual, economic and political figures in Barcelona, Paris and Madrid around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

Medieval coins show that communication through both text and image was not restricted to books. Coins are tiny historical monuments, material witnesses of how medieval people thought, how they recognised and understood the world. Learn more from our blog

Explore artworks, objects and vintage photographs related to Turin, the capital city of Italy's Piedmont region.

Female literacy during the Middle Ages was surprisingly high. Nuns were authors and scribes. Many other women encouraged reading and learning, especially noble woman. One example was Christine de Pizan, a poet at the court of King Charles VI of France. G…

Life in a monastery was structured through and governed by monastic rules, which set out the daily programme and the duties of each member. Most orders followed the Rule of Saint Benedict, but there were others. Curated by Eva De Cooman for ARMA

Children and adults alike get playful when it's snowy outside. Let's bring some winter fun with these images depicting snowball fights

Kissing under the mistletoe is a well-known Christmas tradition. Across many cultures from the past - from Norse to Ancient Greek, mistletoe was valued for its healing properties.

The Bible is not so much one book, as it's a collection of texts, written in different eras and by different people. In the Middle Ages, its books were often copied and read apart, e.g. the Psalter, the Gospels. Curated by Eva De Cooman for ARMA

Dictatorships and communist countries used sport as part of state propaganda systems, where women taking part in sport confronted idealised stereotypes of women and their bodies. Gallery curated by CRDI, Ajuntament de Girona for Europeana Sport project

Apartheid was a racist segregation system in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to 1990. These posters, photographs and objects document anti-apartheid movements across Europe, in solidatory with Black South Africans.

The Church Fathers were a group of theologians and clergymen (c. 100-750 AD) whose writings and teachings were formative in establishing early Christian doctrine and were considered highly authoritative. Curated by Eva De Cooman for ARMA.

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

First held in 1928, Olympic torch relays have visited 30 different countries across Europe.