Stories connect people. We think cultural heritage does too. Digital Storytelling Festival is an online event by Europeana and The Heritage Lab, non-profits in Europe and India bringing culture to people digitally. There are millions of openly licensed digitised objects from cultural institutions across the world. …

This year’s Digital Storytelling Festival — the international creative contest that brings people and cultural heritage together — is almost here. Today we’re happy to share the programme for our Opening Gala, 10–11 May, packed with interactive workshops, practical tips and amazing cultural heritage. Register now — you won’t want to miss it! 10 May programme (all times CEST) 10:00–10:30 Welcome & introduction

The first edition of the Digital Storytelling Festival encouraged people to create digital stories from openly licensed cultural heritage collections. At its recent closing event, Festival participants, the Jury and cultural heritage enthusiasts celebrated and looked back at the inaugural edition. The session began with a peek behind the scenes…

Digital cultural heritage collections are a great way to preserve and promote folk tales, music and traditional ways of living. Take a look at this selection of open collections exploring folklore from across Europe. 1. Recordings, images and documents from Irish Traditional Music Archive on Europeana 2. Folk costume photographs by Gösta Florman from Stiefelsen Nordska Museet on Europeana

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is the second most popular image format used on the Internet, after JPEG. While GIFs have been around for about 30 years, they became very popular in the 2010s, with the rise of social media — especially Tumblr. …

Digitised cultural heritage collections can play an important role in protecting and promoting diversity and inclusion. Explore this selection of material from across the world featuring the cultural heritage of various communities: 1. The collection of National Museum of African American History and Culture via Smithsonian 2. Objects from the Immigration Museum of the State of São Paulo