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Arts + culture portal software for regional marketing and digital souvereignty

OpenCulturas is built as a pre-configured platform for cultural-focused communities, empowering actors in the cultural field to own their data and make their information accessible to a wide audience.

How do I download OpenCulturas?

composer create-project --remove-vcs drupal/openculturas_project example.org

For the source code go to OpenCulturas Project page.

Any facet of an arts + culture community, infinitely interconnectable

  • Calendar: Add event dates and list them in a filterable event calendar (plus map)
  • Locations: Create event locations that can be referenced and are aggregated on a map
  • Personal Profiles: Create your profile and showcase your information
  • Group Profiles: Create a profile for your group, such as a band, performance group or theatre ensemble
  • Magazine: Publish magazine articles on spotlight topics, such as artist interviews or concert reviews
  • Event Catalogue: Re-usable event (or workshop) descriptions, displayed in a catalogue with search filters
  • Tagging in many dimensions, each tag automatically comes with a promotable landing page


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Features

  • Filterable overviews for all types (locations on a map, calendar, profiles overview, magazine
  • Category pages aggregate context-filtered content
  • Pre-configured "related content" blocks, e. g. a calendar related to a location/profile, connections to artist/ensemble profiles, referencing magazine articles
  • Hierarchically structured taxonomies like focus categories, accessibility features, trigger warnings
  • Interaction options like bookmark links for individual watchlists, public recommendations
  • Review workflows
  • Focus on user-generated content, with moderation workflows, abuse flags etc.

Many more features

Based on repeating usability tests, there are yet more features on the roadmap.

Governance

Following what we've learned from FOSS communities, the distribution will not be "owned" by a company. Instead, the OpenCulturas Association invites site-owners and cultural organizations to decide about further development.

Activity

Total releases
19
First release
Dec 2024
Latest release
3 months ago
Release cadence
19 days
Stability
74% stable

Release Timeline

Releases

Version Type Release date
2.5.4 Stable Nov 10, 2025
2.5.3 Stable Nov 10, 2025
2.5.2 Stable Oct 10, 2025
2.6.x-dev Dev Oct 9, 2025
2.5.1 Stable Oct 9, 2025
2.5.0 Stable Sep 18, 2025
2.5.0-rc1 Pre-release Sep 4, 2025
2.4.5 Stable Aug 28, 2025
2.4.4 Stable Aug 12, 2025
2.4.3 Stable May 9, 2025
2.4.2 Stable Apr 16, 2025
2.4.1 Stable Mar 25, 2025
2.5.x-dev Dev Mar 18, 2025
2.4.0 Stable Mar 6, 2025
2.4.0-rc2 Pre-release Feb 26, 2025
2.4.0-rc1 Pre-release Feb 21, 2025
2.3.3 Stable Feb 20, 2025
2.3.2 Stable Jan 26, 2025
2.3.0 Stable Dec 11, 2024