Happy birthday, Tchaikovsky!

Today, we celebrate a great composer’s birthday. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on 7 May 1840, in Votkinsk, Russia. I have always loved Tchaikovsky’s ballet music. I remember dancing around to the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and feeling the …

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The Art of Performing

Who doesn’t love a night out to the theatre? Dreaming away with a love story, being blown away by the performers and letting your thoughts drift away with the play. We have been enjoying the theatre for thousands of years. …

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The Book and the Bard

It’s no surprise that if you search for Shakespeare on Europeana, you get back quite a lot of results, in more than 20 languages. Shakespeare wrote, amongst other things, 38 plays and 154 sonnets. He also invented 1,700 words including …

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Mixed-up mermaids

I’ve always been fascinated by the folklore around mermaids, so when I had the opportunity to travel to Copenhagen, Denmark, for a meeting about the new Europeana Creative project, I had to take the time to seek out this little …

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Faithful Companions

Maybe you wouldn’t say it, but donkeys have played a prominent role in the human world for a long time. Not only have they been helping with work on farms and transport for at least 5,000 years, they play a part in …

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Fashion Heritage for the Masses – Join us on Tumblr

Last year you might remember we dived into the world of Pinterest with five of our partners including the University for Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya and the Varna Public Library. This year, we’re embarking on another exciting idea, but this …

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