We have been working on new galleries with digital heritage on Europeana platform.You can find digitised cultural content from the four corners of Europe!  

We produced three galleries as part of the Digital Storytelling Festival on May 13 & 14, 2025! This international event supports cultural heritage professionals, teachers, creative people and students from Europe to develop their narrative skills and tell stories that explore culture. This year, workshops are being organised around a main theme: food. For this occasion, we contributed to the festival’s creation through the creation of three galleries featuring three main themes: Food & Religion, Vegetarian/ Vegetalian/ Veggie and Table setting. In these, you find different artworks of all types, from all eras.

CC: Marie får mad par Skovgaard, Joakim – 1906 – National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark – Public Domain. Europeana 

Food and Religion is a gallery that presents the role of food in Art. Food can be used as a contextual or central element in works that refer to episodes from Greek mythology or Biblical history. The place of food may be secondary in the explanation but it nevertheless occupies a central place in the representation. We can therefore easily wonder about its role and question its significance. 

Access the gallery here:  https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/20650 

Cover of “Zdravotní polovegetariánská kuchařka” by Kejřová, Anuše

Vegetarian/ Vegetalian/ Veggie is another gallery whose ambition is to present the subject of society through an artistic prism. Vegetarianism and veganism are diets that exclude certain animal products but they differ in the degree of exclusion. Beyond being a dietary habit, they have become real societal, political and economic issues justifying advertising, scientific studies, mockery, caricatures and communities surrounding them. This gallery offers an insight into the impact of this dietary behavior on global society.

Access the gallery: https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/20772 

CC: Laid table – Rijksmuseum, Netherlands – Public Domain. Europeana 

Finally, the last gallery takes us straight to the heart of the dining experience from table setting to serving utensils,etc/ Crockery, table settings and table dressings are all elements that enhance the dining experience. The way it is organised and presented can be synonymous with harmony and homogeneity but it can also be as offbeat as Art in its broadest definition. With these considerations in mind, you will find in this gallery the various utensils necessary for this experience and the final renderings that mean these appliances can be described as “Art”!

Access the gallery: https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/20657 

More on the Digital Storytelling Festival: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/digital-storytelling-festival