OpenCulturas: The Platform Solution

Build portals with events, maps, connected content

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Networking platform

A vibrant scene, its actors and their connections made visible. Fostering participation and networking. Structured with topic tags. Enabling publications.

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Topic maps

Making places and actors visible on a map, with search and filter functions. Maintainable by members themselves. Without compromising on data protection. And without third-party fees.

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Event calendar

Adding dates with minimal effort, as automated as possible. Linking profiles of contributors and event venues. Setting up recurring dates. Enabling decentralized maintenance. Maybe even showing it on a map?

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Features

  • Free & open-source – developed according to principles such as data protection, accessibility, diversity, and digital sovereignty
  • Approval workflows
  • Reusable images, including access to local Creative Commons–licensed assets for all users, galleries for images and audiovisual media
  • Multilingual
  • System and design responsive and accessible, easy to customize – a completely individual design can also be integrated
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Endlessly linked content, fully responsive

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Who is OpenCulturas made for?

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    Associations and independent organizations

    Shared infrastructure. For everyone who holds culture together.

    Whether umbrella association, sector association, independent organization, or special-purpose association – OpenCulturas gives you and your members a digital foundation that grows with your structure...

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    Whether umbrella association, sector association, independent organization, or special-purpose association – OpenCulturas gives you and your members a digital foundation that grows with your structure...

    Associations and independent organizations

  • Eine Menge Personen sitzen in einer Tischrunde, vor sich Namensschilder, Schreibblocks und Getränke

    Cities and municipalities

    Digital infrastructure for municipal culture. Sustainable, procurement-compliant, in your hands.

    Whether you're building a shared digital foundation for your cultural institutions for the first time, replacing an existing solution, or anchoring a funded project sustainably – OpenCulturas has been...

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    Whether you're building a shared digital foundation for your cultural institutions for the first time, replacing an existing solution, or anchoring a funded project sustainably – OpenCulturas has been...

    Cities and municipalities

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    Cooperation projects and initiatives

    Your places. Your data. Your infrastructure.

    Whether a self-managed venue, a grown cooperation project, or a network of several sites – OpenCulturas gives you a digital foundation that fits your structure, not the other way around. Open source...

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    Whether a self-managed venue, a grown cooperation project, or a network of several sites – OpenCulturas gives you a digital foundation that fits your structure, not the other way around. Open source...

    Cooperation projects and initiatives

Testimonials

  • OpenCulturas offers a lot for the visibility of culture online. Above all, the simple interlinking of dates, venues, actors, and topics gives us real added value. You can tell the developers know what culture needs. Thanks to the team for the personalized support.
    —Hannes Piening, project lead for the Managed OpenCulturas webseite Kulturregionale.de and Regional Management Zukunftsregion Hannover-Hildesheim (translated from German)

  • Top notch… High praise for OpenCulturas. Exemplary customer service. The email with all the relevant go-live information is something you rarely get in this form. Keep it up.
    —M. Heine, IT Department, City of Hildesheim (translated from German)

  • Our members are happy about the reduced maintenance effort for recurring events and the intuitive tagging that automatically creates every conceivable landing page.
    We're also very pleased that other operators are using the features we contributed.
    —Maik Derstappen, Deputy Chair CMS Garden e. V.

  • Dear OpenCulturas team, wow, what support! Many thanks! We're blown away by OpenCulturas!!! …we'd love to get started right away, we're so excited…
    —Jana Kämmerling from Wennigsen, following an initial consultation on OpenCulturas (translated from German)

News

OpenCulturas also includes a full-featured magazine, if desired. We use it ourselves.

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Background

The new design “OpenCulturas Next”

Why we built a new theme for OpenCulturas

A new event platform look and feel out-of-the-box: How to make the switch and why.

Meike Jung
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News

OpenCulturas listed in openCode's software index

Easily findable for the public sector

As of October 2024, OpenCulturas can be found at openCode.de, an open source platform dedicated to Germany's public sector.

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Neuigkeiten

Veranstaltungskalender Göttingen auf OpenCulturas

Die Stadt Göttingen schafft Redundanzen ab

Ab dem 1. August nutzt die Stadt Göttingen eine Landing-page auf kulturis anstelle eines selbst gepflegten Veranstaltungskalenders. Mit der Zusammenlegung der Angebote werden parallele Strukturen...

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Download

The latest version is available on Drupal.org. Or get in touch with us.

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Release notes

OpenCulturas 3.1

Enhanced search function, location area options, AI attribution, cookies management accessibility

New features in this version: enhanced search performance, new area options for location maps, AI-generated or AI-modified media assets can be marked compliantly, and accessibility improvements for...

Tobias Bähr
Meike Jung
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Any questions?

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OpenCulturas-Dojo

Die virtuelle Roadshow zur Software

Vorführung von OpenCulturas: Wie alles miteinander vernetzt ist, wie man Inhalte einpflegt. Live-Demo auf unserem Demo-System. Wir laden herzlich dazu ein, Fragen zu stellen.

Quick info

Vorführung von OpenCulturas: Wie alles miteinander vernetzt ist, wie man Inhalte einpflegt. Live-Demo auf unserem Demo-System. Wir laden herzlich dazu ein, Fragen zu stellen.

OpenCulturas-Dojo

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FAQ

Quick support, help yourself

Self-help guidance: frequently asked questions on the website answer everything from portal usage to funding programs.

Quick info

Self-help guidance: frequently asked questions on the website answer everything from portal usage to funding programs.

FAQ