Involvement in the season helped museums, galleries, libraries and archives across Europe to engage with existing and new audiences, while empowering their digital transformations through participatory events and collaborative storytelling activities.
Here’s a brief look at what we – and you, our partners – achieved together.
182 work-related stories
24 different cultural heritage organisations and venues, including Europeana aggregators in Italy, Finland and Sweden, ran 12 collection day events in cities, towns and villages in nine different countries: Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden.
The events also included a variety of additional activities such as talks, walking tours, museum open days and Instagram meet-ups.
A total of 182 stories were shared in eight different languages, along with more than 300 objects. The stories, now in the process of being published on Europeana, are about 104 people and their working careers in a variety of industries: from aid-work to accountancy, from childcare to carpentry and from museums to the military.
Industrial heritage collections from 36 countries
One Industrial Heritage collection brings together 440,000 digital cultural heritage records from 739 cultural heritage institutions in 36 countries.
55 pieces of editorial showcasing 1,100 items
In just over three months, 35 blogs and 20 galleries as well as the exhibition Still a Working Title were written and co-produced in close cooperation with more than 20 different organisations. This enormous effort and teamwork meant that many more people engaged with the blog and galleries in 2019 than in previous years (reads of the Europeana blog increased by 75%, and gallery by 62%).
Altogether, the editorial for Europe at Work showcased more than 1,100 cultural heritage objects from more than 240 cultural heritage institutions in 35 countries, including each EU Member State.
