Where can you find Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the works of Charles Darwin, and the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Why in Europe, of course! Don't have the time or resources to jump on a plane to see Europe's culture? Check out Europeana.eu, an internet portal that acts as an interface to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitized throughout Europe. Europeana has over 26 millions objects from more than 2,200 institutions scattered among 34 countries, and its still growing. For just a taste of what you can find, the featured collections this week are: "Royal Book Collections", "Europeana Fasion: Weird and wonderful shoes form the worlds biggest collection", "The Museum of Architecture, Berlin" and "Exhibition: European Sport Heritage".Prefer getting your history in bit sized portions? Europeana is on Pinterest, twitter, and facebook. You can also check out their blog.
This is one of the resources pinned to the archive’s “Primary Resources” Pinterest board.
~Sara Pitcher, Archives Assistant
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