Voices of History
History, close enough
to talk to.
We're closing the distance between people today and the whole of human history — building the exhibits, classrooms, games, and stories that let anyone meet the people who shaped the world.
Why we exist
For most of us, history is something behind glass — a plaque, a paragraph, a face on a bill. The people who built the world we live in are kept at a distance, and we hardly notice, because we've never known it any other way.
We're here to close that distance — to make meeting a historical figure as easy as asking them a question, wherever you happen to run into one.
Read the full mission →What we do
Four places to meet the past.
Exhibits
Museums & institutions
Let visitors step past the plaque and ask their own question.
Explore →Classrooms
Educators & students
Turn a reading list into people students can actually question.
Explore →Games
Players
History as something you play, not something you finish.
Explore →Studio
Creators & storytellers
Put historical figures in your videos, podcasts, and posts.
Explore →How we work
A standard, held everywhere.
- Faithful to the record
- Every figure is built from what they actually said and did — and stays honest about where the record runs out. Getting a person right is the whole job.
- Wherever you meet history
- A gallery, a lecture hall, a phone on the bus, a video you're making. We meet people where they already are, in the mood they're already in.
- Made for everyone
- History belongs to all of us and almost no one gets to meet it. We build for the fourth-grader and the professor, the curious and the skeptical, alike.
Writing
Notes on meeting the past.
Meeting Roosevelt
This July, a museum will let visitors walk up and ask Theodore Roosevelt a question. It is a small thing that changes everything about how a person meets history.
Read → 4 minThe distance between us and history
Why a company that builds museum exhibits also builds a game, a classroom tool, and a studio — and why that is one mission, not four products.
Read → 4 minWhat it takes to bring someone back faithfully
Making a historical figure speak is not the hard part. Making them speak truthfully — and knowing when to let them stay silent — is the whole job.
Read → 4 minHelp us close the distance.
Whether you run a museum, teach a class, make things for an audience, or just love this stuff — we'd like to hear from you.