WHAT IS EUROPEANA?
Europeana rolls multimedia library, museum and archive into one digital website combined with Web 2.0 features. It offers direct access to digitised books, audio and film material, photos, paintings, maps, manuscripts, newspapers and archival documents that are Europe’s cultural heritage. Visitors to www.europeana.eu can search and explore different collections in Europe’s cultural institutions in their own language in virtual form, without having to visit multiple sites or countries. Europeana was launched by the European Commission and the EU’s culture ministers in Brussels on 20 November 2008 ( IP/08/1747 ).