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Art

Vatican Library spotlights pioneering 19th-century women travellers

The Vatican Apostolic Library’s 'En Route' exhibition explores 19th-century world travel and women’s emancipation through art, fashion, and historic newspapers.

09/02/2025

Culture news

UK study reveals schools are banning LGBTQ+ books after complaints

A recent survey found that over half of UK school librarians have been asked to remove books, many of which are LGBTQ+ titles, with parents being the main source of these requests.

20/08/2024

Design

Spanish design duo reveal secrets of award-winning architecture

If the couple's mission was to make reading relevant again then this is a total triumph. A long queue of people regularly wait to get inside the Barcelona library, in scenes more reminiscent of a concert than a reading room in a quiet area of the city.

28/05/2024

Green News

Watch protestors in their 80s target Magna Carta over UK oil and gas

The protestors were heard asking “Is the government above the law?”

10/05/2024

Moments

A change of scene on the Seine: Where to take a workation in Paris

These quirky coworking spaces give a taste of life in the French capital.

17/03/2024

Culture news

British Library puts catalogue back online after 2023 cyber attack

The UK's biggest library faced a massive cyber attack that took the entire collection offline.

16/01/2024

Culture news

A 15th century manuscript offers a peek into medieval stand-up comedy

A new study by a Cambridge English professor explores comedic texts believed to have been written by an unknown medieval minstrel.

31/05/2023

Culture news

Northern Italy floods leave museums and churches submerged

Museums, libraries and churches have been inundated with water.

25/05/2023

Culture news

Austrian World Heritage Site Melk Abbey is being restored

Around 100,000 books dating back to the year 900 and the many rooms are being restored at Austria’s historic Melk Abbey’s Library.

28/10/2022

Art

Here's the winner of the UK's Museum of the Year 2022

Art Fund has announced the winner for its prestigious 2022 Museum of the Year award.

15/07/2022

Afghanistan

Mobile libraries restart for the first time since Taliban takeover

Many schools in Afghanistan lack their own library, but after a three-month break, the Taliban's education ministry granted permission for the mobile libraries to restart.

07/12/2021

Art

Pope to open new diversity art space in Vatican's Apostolic Library

The Vatican Library will host exhibitions combining old and new that reflect Pope Francis's progressive appeals on climate and other issues.

09/11/2021

Culture news

At Denmark’s Human Library, you can read people like a book

The Human Library invites people to 'publish' their story in 30 minute conversations with 'readers'.

13/10/2021

United Kingdom

London's 'tart cards' reveal history of sex work, design and printing

Titillation or a sociological document. Euronews takes a look at the phenomenon of 'tart cards', the way London's sex workers got themselves noticed.

27/02/2020

Smart Regions

Bridging history and modernity: the multipurpose space shaking up Pisa

In partnership with the European Commission

The EU funded 'Officine Garibaldi' is a multipurpose space bringing together the local community as well as visitors to Pisa. It provides cultural events, co-working spaces for local entities, as well as many other functions.

21/03/2019

Living

Oodi, the future-facing Helsinki new public library

A true democratisation of resources.

05/12/2018

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Wooden library lures bookworms to village outside Beijing

Deep in the heart of a valley surrounded by rocky hills, a wooden library sits just over a creek on the outskirts of Beijing, seemingly in the middle of nowhere.

27/09/2018