Cultural heritage isn’t static. It lives in landscapes, memories, and the communities that keep them. It changes lives and makes the past feel real.
Humap empowers galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) to transform archives, data, and collections into map-based digital exhibitions that share their content with the world.
Considering using Humap for a grant-funded project? The Humap Bid Kit contains all of the information you need to get started.
"The Humap Team understands digital humanities. Humap allowed us to map at-risk and intangible heritage that exists in people's memories, in magazines, flyers and posters."
Whether you’re curating a temporary exhibition or managing a national archive, you need tools that work with your collections and your capacity. Humap is purpose-built for cultural storytelling:
“Our old interactive map webpage had become antiquated and technically too constrained to effectively tell the stories within our collections to a wider audience. Humap solved this in style, with a fresh look and intuitive platform.”
Digital exhibitions can share your collections with a far wider audience, but internet users expect more than a static webpage.
On Humap, users are free to search, click into, and experience your collections on their own unique journey into your content. You can curate Collections, Walking Trails, Journeys, Timelines and more, creating new narratives as you go.
Your Humap website can interlink with your collections database or archive, surfacing them more widely.
Our platform includes the Contribute feature, our suite of user-generated content tools. These allow visitors to submit their own stories, artefacts, or memories. It’s a powerful way to build community, deepen engagement, and reflect the plurality of heritage.
Traditional collections often stay behind glass. Humap takes them outside. With our platform, you can map images, oral histories, documents, audio, and video directly to real-world locations—connecting objects and archives to the places, people, and events they belong to.
From mapping archival treasures to living oral histories or ephemera, Humap helps you turn cultural data into living, spatial stories.
“Humap’s platform enabled us to create a digital resource that many different institutions can contribute their archival content to, and for each of these partner organisations to have a visual presence on the site so that it looks visually like the collaborative project that it aims to be.”
Too many digital exhibitions are published only to fall off the internet a few years later for lack of upkeep.. Humap is designed for longevity. Whether you’re working on a one-off exhibition, a long-running research project, or a public engagement initiative, you can create something that lasts.
Learn more about Legacy Mode and sustainability on Humap here.
Layers of London “provides the infrastructure and platform for people to present the stories of their own heritage that have gone unrecorded - these are shown alongside academic research and historical artefacts.”
There are currently several cultural heritage interactive maps on the Humap platform that have won funding:
Several different funding bodies have backed projects that use Humap, demonstrating the value and potential of our platform.
We love projects like these, and we’ve developed a Bid Kit to help prospective platform users win funding.
"On top of everything, the team at Humap has been so easy to work with and responsive to our requests as we get the site loaded with our collections."
