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2 minutes to read Posted on Wednesday February 12, 2025

Updated on Wednesday February 12, 2025

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Marijke Everts

Campaign Coordination and Administrative Assistant , Europeana Foundation

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Beth Daley

Editorial Adviser , Europeana Foundation

Celebrate International Women’s Day with collage art and a Transcribathon challenge

Every year, the Europeana Initiative and partners contribute to Women’s History Month by sharing stories about women from history, as well as stories about how projects and cultural heritage institutions are showcasing women’s history. This year is no exception. Here are some of the things you can look forward to this Women’s History Month.

Collage of three women, with a wireless and television in the background
Title:
Women's History Month collage
Creator:
Europeana Foundation
Date:
2025-02-11
Institution:
Europeana Foundation
Country:
Netherlands

Join our workshop

First of all, on 8 March, International Women’s Day, you can join the Europeana Foundation and Paris Collage Collective at Espace Canopy for a meet and greet and collage-making workshop.

Women's accomplishments and contributions to society are often overlooked and it can be challenging to find material related to women's history in cultural heritage collections. In this workshop, you'll showcase women from history through collage art.

The event runs from 14:00-18:00, with the workshop taking place at 15:00-17:00 and time to socialise and have some snacks both before and after!

If you can’t join in person, join the online prompt challenge that is running until 8 March. Late submissions will still be accepted!


Collage Workshop and Meet up poster
Title:
Collage Workshop and meet up poster
Creator:
Petra Zehner
Date:
2025-02-11
Institution:
Paris Collage Collective
Country:
France
Collage Workshop and Meet up poster

Transcribathon

Throughout the month of March you can take part in the Women’s History Transcribe Run. From 1 March, choose one of the letters or diaries written by women across Europe in a language you know well, and type up their handwritten texts so that more people can enjoy and learn from them. You earn points for every transcription you complete. You can also get points for reviewing existing transcriptions. Join the run to win a prize!


Photographs from the collection of Karol and Wanda Młodnicki Fotografie ze zbiorów Karola i Wandy Młodnickich
Title:
Photographs from the collection of Karol and Wanda Młodnicki Fotografie ze zbiorów Karola i Wandy Młodnickich
Institution:
Biblioteka Jagiellońska
Country:
Poland
Photographs from the collection of Karol and Wanda Młodnicki Fotografie ze zbiorów Karola i Wandy Młodnickich

Other ways to get involved in Women’s History Month

Explore our websites

Discover some of the ways that institutions and individuals are working to acknowledge, surface and highlight women’s history in their own collections and activities on Europeana Pro.

Over on Europeana.eu, read our stories about a range of figures from history - explore all our women’s history and heritage stories on Europeana.eu

Follow our social media

We’d love you to follow, retweet and share our editorials and news posts throughout the month - we will be sharing them on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

And we’re looking forward to seeing other organisations take over our Instagram account to showcase their own collections and activities related to Women’s History Month. Follow us on Instagram.

Get involved

We want to help cultural heritage institutions to get involved in Women's History Month. Share inspirational stories from your own collections and let us know about your plans so we can explore ways to support them.

  • Do your collections tell the story of an inspirational woman from history? Write an editorial piece for the Europeana website, or share it with us so that we can explore how to feature it.

  • Does your institution plan to celebrate Women’s History Month? We can support your activities on social media or Europeana Pro News.

  • Does your institution have collections and content around women’s history? Promote relevant images, objects and blogs on social media. Use #WomensHistoryMonth and tag us when you do.

If any of these sound good to you, then get in touch with editorial@europeana.eu.

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