New on Europeana - trending items

Published January 18, 2024 by

Thousands of searches take place every day on our website, with people searching millions of collection items for research, for learning or just for fun.

Have you ever wondered what the most popular items are? With our new trending items, now you can find out.

Trending items are curated by looking at what people are viewing, downloading, liking and adding to their galleries. As you'd expect, trending items change regularly. They reflect what people are interested in each day and month - for example, around Christmas, we saw Christmas trees and other related items trending.

Look at trending items

Let's take a look at a number of items that have been trending in the past few weeks.

Swedish dining room

Step into a Swedish dining room with this photograph. It was taken by architectural photographer Sune Sundahl, whose work is part of the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm.

black and white photograph of a dining room with table, chairs, sideboard and other furniture.

British tea cup

Ever tried to drink a cup of tea and not get some on your moustache?

This curious cup has a built-in moustache protector. It is thought to date from the early 19th century and is part of the Museum of English Rural Life's collections.

a white ceramic tea-cup with two painted pink and green flowers.

French fashion

The concept of trends is most closely associated with fashion. This mohair knitwear by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren dates from around 1976. It is now in the collection of the Palais Galliera, the fashion museum of Paris.

a jumper, mostly black with red on one sleeve and around the neck, as well as dark and light blue and pink panels.

Latvian New Year card

This New Year greeting card is part of the collection of the MK Čiurlionis National Art Museum in Lithuania. It dates from 1938, and was sent from Daugavpils in Latvia. It shows a man in a carriage greeting a woman dressed in a Latvian national costume.

colour card with illustration of a man in a carriage in a forest, a woman stands nearby.

An exhibition in Spain

This group of people have been photographed at the opening of an exhibition by Spanish artist Arturo Souto. The exhibition was held in 1933 at the Circo de Artesáns cultural centre in A Coruña in Galicia in the northwest of Spain.

black and white photograph, a group of men and women posing for a portrait in an art gallery.

A Polish library

Visit a library in Poland with this photograph of the scientific reading room in the public library of Olsztyn, a city in the centre of the country. A woman is seen consulting the card catalogue in 1986.

black and white photograph, a woman looks in a card catalogue.

A harbour in Croatia

This glass slide dates from the 19th century. It shows a port in Split, now in Croatia though then in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The glass slide is from the collections of the Historical Museum, part of the National Museum in the Czech Republic.

boats in a harbour in front of the cityscape of Split.

To the moon

This glass slide is a stunningly detailed photograph of a full moon which dates from before 1914. Sadly the photographer is not known.

detailed black and white of the moon, its surface and stars in a dark sky.

We hope our trending items will help you discover something new - explore now and see what you find!

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