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2.3 Thematic Collections, Galleries and Exhibitions

What are the curated resources: thematic collections, galleries and exhibitions?

Below is an overview of these three resource types you can find on the Europeana platform.

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Thematic collections are a more detailed dive into the highlights of popular topics on the Europeana platform. This makes it easier for you to find what you are looking for. Here is a list that summarises Europeana’s thematic collections:

Europeana Art – A thematic collection that gathers artworks, such as paintings, drawings and prints from European institutions.
Europeana Fashion – Demonstrates hundreds of thousands of catwalk photographs, historical dresses and accessories. Specific fashion-related filters (such as designer, item type, technique) help you narrow your search to find specific content.
Europeana Music – Includes more than 250.000 music recordings, pieces of sheet music and musical instruments. Under the banner of Europeana Sounds, the Europeana Radio project was developed to give people a way to discover and listen to the music from Europeana Music.
Europeana Photography – This thematic collection includes more than 1 million photographs.
Europeana 1914-1918 - Stories, films and historical material about the First World War. Since 2011, Europeana 1914-1918 has worked with partners in 22 countries to hold family history “roadshows” to which the public bring their documents and stories from the First World War to be scanned or photographed and added to the archive.
Europeana Migration - Dedicated to the theme of migration to, from and within Europe. This collection is still growing in 2018.

Are you curious about how to use the thematic collections? Watch this video of Madli-Maria Naulainen, secondary school teacher from Estonia, where she shares how she used the 1914-1918 curated collection.

Galleries > >

Galleries present a curated selection of images on a certain theme. Most of the galleries are related to the aforementioned thematic collections: Europeana Art, Europeana Music, Europeana Fashion and Europeana 1914-1918. You can access the galleries here. Licensing information is provided for all of the Galleries.

Some galleries that you can explore:

In the following video you can see an example of how Brandão Maria Antónia, one of the 18 teachers in the Developer Group, used the Europeana 1914-1918 thematic collection and the Fashion from WW1 gallery in her learning scenario, War and peace...the changing role of Women In this video, Maria Antónia talks about how the implementation of the learning scenario went, lessons learned and advice for teachers considering using this same scenario in their class.

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