For museums & heritage sites

Your history, as a map visitors can touch.

Our historians work from the primary records — war diaries, operational reports, photographs, personal papers — and map what happened day by day into a story a visitor can follow. It runs on your gallery screen and on your website. Your staff edit it from day one.

160,000+ mapped unit positions · 15,000+ war diary pages processed · Sources at Library and Archives Canada, The National Archives, the Bundesarchiv and NARA

A visitor has four minutes before the tour moves on

They put a finger on the screen. The map underneath is the ground the patrol actually crossed — the 1944 sheet, not a modern road map with pins dropped on it.

They move the date to the night of 16 June 1944 and follow twenty-three men of the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders out of Vieux Cairon and up the slope toward the German position. They open the patrol report written afterwards — the kind of document that goes into an archive box and is never read again — and find the three trip wires, the S-mine, the flare, and Lt. Williams lying in the grass telling his corporal to carry on.

Then the tour moves on. In four minutes they've walked the last ground L/Cpl George Pollard crossed, and they know why his body was never found.

That's the calibre of story our historians build. We found the war diary entry, then the patrol report, then mapped the route those twenty-three men actually walked. George Pollard's memorial stands today in the Museum of the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders in Cornwall, Ontario.

The words you'll hear us use

An exhibit

One guided map-story — your unit's war, your region's liberation, told chapter by chapter on the map, with timelines, photographs and document panels.

A gallery screen

The physical touchscreen on your museum floor. The same exhibit also runs on your website, built once.

Frame 44 Studio

The tool your own staff use to edit text, photographs and map layers. No technical skills, no developer on standby.

The archive

The mapped positions and digitized records your exhibit draws on. Our Second World War archive is licensed by collection from Project '44; anything outside it, we research and map for you.

All of it runs on Frame 44 Atlas — the map platform underneath every exhibit we build. How the platform works →

Running in museums today

Two permanent kiosk installations in the Netherlands, built, installed and supported by our team.

Victory Museum

Victory Museum

Liberation of the Netherlands — Day by Day. The liberation of Friesland and Groningen across April and May 1945, so a visitor from the village can move the timeline until the units reach their own street.

18,000 mapped positions · Dutch and English · running since April 2026

Holten Canadian War Cemetery Visitor Centre

Holten Canadian War Cemetery Visitor Centre

1,394 graves, and one date each. A visitor takes the unit from a headstone and follows it backwards through the campaign, with the war diary open beside the ground it describes.

108,000 mapped positions · English and Dutch · running since April 2026

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The same method, other histories

Different decades, different records, same method: find the sources, map the ground, follow the timeline.

Project '44

The Second World War in North-West Europe, mapped position by position from the war diaries.

Project Athena

Afghanistan, mapped from veterans' own photographs and accounts.

Three ways to get an exhibit

Most popular

Built for you

A guided map-story researched, written, animated and built end to end by our historians — your unit's war, your region's history, told chapter by chapter on the map.

Fastest

Ready-made exhibit

A finished, researched guided exhibit with its animated map, ready to publish in weeks. Growing library — Dieppe, 419 Bomber Squadron.

Most control

Build it yourself

Your staff create exhibits in Studio using your own materials and any data collections you licence.

Your history not in the archive yet? We research, map and digitize it. The work joins the open Project '44 archive with your museum credited as founding partner — free for every classroom in the country, permanently in your name.

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What you're licensing

Four parts, and we put all four in front of you, priced, before you decide on any of them.

Studio

The platform and builder — purchased once, sized by exhibits published.

Your exhibits

Built for you, ready-made, or built by your own staff.

Data licences

Yearly, sized to the collection you licence — one unit up to the complete archive.

Yearly plan

Hosting or on-premise care, updates, monitoring and support — what keeps it current.

See pricing

Every installation starts with a conversation.

We'll scope your exhibit and price it to your funding — no obligation.