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Credit: ‘1954 - Ava Gardner a Roma', courtesy of ANSA, for editorial use only, no sales.
EURO-Photo project: big results

The agencies forming the EURO-Photo consortium have digitised about one million historical images to be available both on Europeana and the project’s commercial portal, the world’s first historical photo journalism site. The EURO-Photo platform contains historic moments of European history such as the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, the Chernobyl disaster, King Leopold abdication in Belgium, Allied Forces in post-war Germany, and even going back to cultural events such as the first performance of Henrik Ibsen’s plays in 1880s in Copenhagen. Continue reading


Emigrants at Ellis Island – two Italian children Credit: French National Library - Bibliothèque Nationale de France, public domain image
Leaving Europe: A new life in America

Jointly curated by the two digital libraries, the exhibition uses photographs, manuscripts, broadsheets, paintings, letters, audio, government documents and other unique materials to chart people’s journeys across the European continent and their settlement in the United States. The DPLA and Europeana—guided by a common mission to make the riches of libraries, museums, and archives openly available to everyone in the world—collaborated regularly with curators, content partners, project staff, and others to design and build the exhibition cooperatively. Continue reading


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Museum of History of Photography in Krakow MHF

The museum runs a number of departments and holds a variety of different events. The main scope of the museum’s activities at present is exhibitions, education and digitization. In each of these fields we are planning and implementing actions in accordance with the MHF mission which emphasizes improving the availability of its collection through a variety of media. Continue reading