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Europeana

Europeana empowers the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation. It develops expertise, tools, and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation, making it easier for people to use cultural heritage for education, research, creation, and recreation. The Europeana platform aggregates metadata for over 50 million digitized items from more than 3,500 cultural institutions across Europe and exposes them through public APIs.

Europeana publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Record API and Search API. Tagged areas include Archives, Cultural Heritage, Europe, Libraries, and Museums.

Europeana’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, product news, changelog, getting-started guide, signup flow, and 8 more developer resources.

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46.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
2 APIs
ArchivesCultural HeritageEuropeLibrariesMuseumsSearch

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 46.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.2 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Europeana Record API

Retrieve full metadata for a single record

Europeana Search API

Discover records via keyword, faceted, and filtered search

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Europeana Search and Record API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Europeana Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Europeana Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Europeana Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Europeana Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Europeana Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Europeana Agentic Access

2 operations

2 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Signup
Signup

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Libraries
Libraries

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact
Contact
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 News
News

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Events
Events

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: europeana
name: Europeana
description: Europeana empowers the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation. It develops expertise, tools,
  and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation, making it easier for people to
  use cultural heritage for education, research, creation, and recreation. The Europeana platform aggregates metadata for
  over 50 million digitized items from more than 3,500 cultural institutions across Europe and exposes them through public
  APIs.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/europeana/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/europeana.png
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2023-11-23'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Archives
- Cultural Heritage
- Europe
- Libraries
- Museums
- Search
apis:
- aid: europeana:europeana-record-api
  name: Europeana Record API
  description: Retrieve full metadata for a single record
  humanURL: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/intro
  baseURL: https://api.europeana.eu/record/v2
  tags:
  - Record
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/europeana-record-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/apis
  - type: Console
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/api-rest-console
  - type: Signup
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/pages/get-api
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/europeana/api2
- aid: europeana:europeana-search-api
  name: Europeana Search API
  description: Discover records via keyword, faceted, and filtered search
  humanURL: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/intro
  baseURL: https://api.europeana.eu/record/v2
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/europeana-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/apis
  - type: Console
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/api-rest-console
  - type: Signup
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/pages/get-api
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/europeana/api2
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/europeana-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/europeana-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/europeana-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/europeana
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/
  type: Portal
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/news
  type: News
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/events
  type: Events
- url: https://www.europeana.eu/en/rights
  type: TermsOfService
- url: https://www.europeana.eu/en/rights/privacy-policy
  type: PrivacyPolicy
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/about-us/office-employees
  type: Contact
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/api-libraries-and-plugins
  type: Libraries
- url: https://github.com/europeana/api2/releases/
  type: ChangeLog
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/record#get-started
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://pro.europeana.eu/pages/get-api
  type: Signup
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com