Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.
We launched the Europeana.eu site on 20 November and huge use - 10 million hits an hour - meant it slowed to a crawl. We are doing our best to reopen Europeana.eu in a more robust version.
Meanwhile, the site you're in now is the project development site, with a video to give you a taste of what's on the real Europeana site.
Unfortunately this project site is only in English: the real Europeana is in all EU languages.
Europeana, Europe's digital library, museum and archive, will re-open as soon as possible. We'll be bringing you digitised books, films, paintings, newspapers, sounds and archives from Europe’s greatest collections.
The real Europeana site will reopen soon, linking you to 3.5 million digital treasures. Stay in touch with progress