About Europeana
Europeana aggregates cultural-heritage records from thousands of European institutions: artworks, photographs, maps, manuscripts, sound and film. Search returns titles, creators, dates, rights and image links; record lookup gives the full metadata for one item. Served through the Pipeworx community gateway.
Questions you can ask Europeana
Type them into Kahubi’s chat once Europeana is connected.
“Find digitised photographs of Nordic fishing villages from before 1920 that are free to reuse.”
What comes back: Items with title, creator, date, holding institution, rights statement and a link to each record.
“Which European institutions hold maps of the Baltic Sea from the 1600s?”
What comes back: Map records grouped by the institution that holds them, with dates and record links.
Europeana MCP tools
The 2 tools the Europeana server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.
searchSearch the Europeana collection by keyword.
recordFetch full details for one Europeana item by id - a Europeana record id (the "id" field from search, e.g.
Using Europeana in Kahubi
- Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
- Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
- Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Europeana.
More archives & heritage sources
- Riksarkivet (Swedish National Archives)Search AI-transcribed handwritten records from the 1600s onward, the national archive catalogue, church books, court records and more.
- Kansallisarkisto (National Archives of Finland)Full-text search of 7.8 million transcribed pages: Finnish court records 1610–1931, crown bailiff accounts and medieval charters.
- Trove (National Library of Australia)Australian newspapers, books, images, maps and archives from the National Library of Australia.
- Libris (Kungliga biblioteket)The Swedish national union catalogue: books, journals, theses, maps and music in Swedish libraries.
- Kubhist historical newspapers (Språkbanken Korp)Full-text concordance search in digitised Swedish newspapers 1645–1926, by title and decade.
- Nasjonalbiblioteket (Norway)Norwegian newspapers from 1763, books, periodicals, photos and maps with full-text search.