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:
News
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
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
Europeana Digital Creativity Lab!
Call for applications: 7th World Heritage Site Managers’ Forum
European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2026
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
