19. November 2012 11:20
"Inventing Europe" Virtual Exhibit
Drawing on the work of the former ESF EUROCORES programme “Inventing Europe” and the collections of five science and technology museums the prototype virtual exhibition 'Europe, Interrupted' was made public in September 2009. Since then the final version of the exhibition entitled "Inventing Europe" has gone live.
The Virtual Exhibit is a pioneering collaboration between historians, web designers, and cultural heritage institutions throughout Europe to create a new exploratory environment for understanding recent European history. Based on research from the six-part book series "Making Europe: Technology and Transformations 1850-2000", the virtual exhibit explores the broad themes of globalisation, consumption, communication, infrastructures, knowledge societies, and governance. These form the basis for stories that allow users to make connections within and between the rich and growing online collections of museums, archives and libraries throughout Europe and beyond. The exhibit will show how these national collections together shape a transnational collective memory of European cultural heritage.
The "Inventing Europe" Virtual Exhibit can be accessed at www.inventingeurope.eu.
