Inventing Europe

"Inventing Europe: Technology and the Making of Europe, 1850 to the Present" is a collaborative research platform set up by the European Science Foundation. It aims to understand the complicated connections between the creation and use of technology and the ideas and experiences of "Europe" over the course of the last 150 years.

Through the Foundation for the History of Technology, historians involved in "Inventing Europe" projects have teamed up with museums to tell stories about the way technology has helped and hindered the circulation of people, things and idea in modern Europe. To do this, we have developed a “virtual exhibition", a multimedia web environment that combines text and visual material from a wide range of sources throughout Europe. "Europe, Interrupted" is the first in a series of virtual exhibitions that will explore these complicated links.

Within this exhibit, you will find stories told by historians who are currently exploring the connections between technology and Europe. Dynamic links with the collections of a number of museums across Europe will allow you to explore further the things, people and ideas across Europe and beyond. As more links to museums and collections are added, the exhibit will continue to expand.