How pricing works

Pricing

Interactive map exhibits for museums and heritage sites, built from the primary records. Every installation is one Studio — the platform and builder — plus the exhibits that run on it, licences for the historical data they use, and a yearly plan that keeps it all running.

We'll send you the guide

Tell us a little about your museum and we'll send the current pricing guide — and a note on what your exhibit would actually involve.

A regiment, a town, a battle, a collection — whatever you'd want on the screen.
An opening, an anniversary, Remembrance Day — anything we should scope around.

Prefer email? Write to us at info@frame44.com

Start with the exhibit — three ways to build one

The exhibit is the guided map-story your visitors use.

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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.

Your Studio and yearly plan are separate

Fastest

Ready-made exhibit

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

Studio 1 included · first year's data licence included

Most control

Build it yourself

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

Included with every Studio

Every exhibit we build or license includes its first year's data licence. Full figures are in the pricing guide — all prices CAD, excl. tax, hardware quoted separately.

Inside a built-for-you exhibit

Your unit may already be on the Project '44 map — that is exactly what makes a fixed price and a fixed date possible. The licence keeps the archive live; the exhibit is the story our historians build from it.

  • A full read of your primary sources against the mapped positions — war diaries, ship's logs, personnel files, factory records — deciding what the story is
  • Your collection — photographs, letters, artifacts — digitized into the chapters
  • Narrative architecture: the story in chapters, from first event to last
  • Written for visitors, approved by your curator, delivered in English and French
  • Named individuals researched from your own records — personnel files, citations, letters
  • The animated build: camera, pacing, movement across the map, chapter by chapter
  • Source QA, a corrections cycle, installation and staff training — launched for your date

What you're licensing

Every installation has these four parts. We put all four in front of you, priced, before you decide on any of them.

  1. Frame 44 Studio

    The platform and the builder — purchased once, sized by how many exhibits you publish.

  2. Your exhibits

    Built for you by our historians, chosen ready-made from our library, or built by your own staff in Studio.

  3. Data licences

    Yearly, sized to the collection you licence — one unit's collection, a battle, a whole theatre, or the complete archive. Every exhibit we build or license for you includes its first year.

  4. The yearly plan

    Starts in year one and covers hosting or on-premise server care, updates, screen monitoring and content sync, staff support, security patching and backups.

Cloud hosting is included. Secure and offline sites can run Atlas on-premise, inside your own firewall.

Every licence includes the full map from Project '44, our Second World War mapping archive — every front line and unit position, for context. Your collections set which units you can follow: open their war diaries, trace their movements day by day, and build exhibits from their records. Browse the catalogue →

Unit not in the archive yet? We'll research, map and digitize it, priced per diary month of active service with archive retrieval at cost, estimated upfront. Your unit joins the open Project '44 archive with your museum credited as founding partner, and the first year's Unit Collection licence is included. Need the data kept private? Closed licences are available at a multiple of the open rate.

If a plan or licence lapses, the exhibit on your gallery screen keeps running as it was built. How continuity works →

Exhibits run on your website as web exhibits and on gallery screens in the room. On-premise and offline installations are supported for secure networks.

Typical hardware: a mini PC from about $700 and a 32-inch commercial touchscreen from about $1,300 CAD. You purchase to our exact spec — we provide the shopping list and set everything up remotely. We don't resell hardware.

AI and community tools — answering visitor questions, assisting staff research, transcribing documents, and handling community contributions — exist as optional add-ons.

What "grant-ready paperwork" actually means

Real documents, not a promise: capital and operating costs split clearly for your budget lines, year-one and ongoing figures stated the way application forms ask for them, and vendor-stability answers pre-written for the risk sections funders expect.

Every installation starts with a conversation.

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

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