Europeana

10.01.13 House of European History, Brussels

Europe’s digital library, museum and

archive

Where?At the portal on your mobile or tablet, on Facebook, Pinterest and Wikipedia and using our API, in special interest sites such as Europeana Fashion or

anywhere online

Why?

So people understand and celebrate Europe’s cultural diversity, and are able

to use this vast resource to generate new ideas and fuel creative enterprise

Who?

Everyone with an interest in history and culture to use for

their personal interest, for learning or for work

What?

We put people in touch with their cultural history

in a 21st century way

We unite 24 million digitised books, paintings, manuscripts, letters, films

and audio held by 2,500 memory institutions from every EU country

We have 13,000 Facebook followers

For the digital generation, if it’s online, it exists

Our API can be added to anybody’s website – 30 have already installed it; 500 have

signed up for it

Software developers and apps designers from learning, tourism

and the games sector are working with us to create innovative services

A PhD student in France is working on a book using

soldiers’ letters and diaries she has found on Europeana

We hold collection days to digitise family stories on subjects such WW1

and 1989 to connect them to their wider European history

A local historian is tracing information about her

village in Slovenia