Curated Reading List May 2025

May is always a wonderful month for heritage, with the international Museum Day, and good whether to explore cultural sites! Here are our picks for the month:

VENIS STUDIOS

The Critical Challenges Facing Historical Paintings and the Role of Conservation and Restoration in Their Preservation

News

A major win for our field’: conservators rejoice at development of new ‘spaghetti-like’ adhesive for treating paintings

European Commission seeks your views on future funding for culture

Call for evidence: A Culture Compass for Europe

Europeana partners with X. Design Week to advance cultural heritage and tourism

Three ancient artefacts from Metropolitan Museum returned to Iraq

Heritage Alert Eglise Sainte-Marie, Nova Scotia, Canada

Smithsonian Teams Up with Saudi Arabia’s AlUla Project Amid Growing Cultural Ambitions

Pallets, not plinths: the V&A opens its vast storehouse to the public

Europa Nostra, strong advocate of Europe’s heritage, culture and values, wins the prestigious Empress Theophano Prize 2025

The impact of war on Ukraine’s cultural heritage

More than 100 archaeological structures discovered in the Peruvian Andes

2,500-year-old bird bone tubes used to snort hallucinogens discovered in Peru

Interesting Reads

How to: Queer Your Historic House

Advancing Trans-Inclusion across cultural organisations

Italian translation available of Trans Inclusive Culture guidance

Co-creating inclusive museums: Add to NEMO’s evolving LGBTQIA+ resource

Report highlights need to improve wellbeing and inclusion for museum professionals of colour

Opportunities

Call for applications: NEMO online workshop series on collections, SDGs, and wellbeing

Apply for the Time Machine Organisation Synergy Grants Programme

3DBigDataSpace: Data Synergy Call

Europeana Digital Creativity Lab!

Call for applications: 7th World Heritage Site Managers’ Forum

European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2026

Call for participation - Travel grant for young (museum) professionals to NEMO European Museum Conference

Events

Introduction to collections, audiences and stories on Europeana.eu

Europeana 2025 - Preserve, Protect, Reuse Five reasons to attend Europeana 2025 in person

Digitisation, Cultural Heritage and Smart Tourism - Online Infoday & Matchmaking

NEMO's European Museum Conference 'Who cares? Museums, wellbeing, and resilience'

Tourism, cultural heritage and digital storytelling: join the Communicators roundtable series

TMO Community Meeting 2025-05-27

Where to find capacity building and other events from the EUreka3D-XR project

Photography and archives: discovery, technology and innovation

Congress on Cultural Ecosystem Services and Biocultural Heritage

Copyright Office Hours: Going open access - an Introduction to the GLAM-E Lab Open GLAM Toolkit