Nine new cities have joined the map, with more than 31,000 historic photographs pinned to the exact spots where they were taken. Here's where we've grown, and what's waiting for you there.
Growing footprint
🇳🇱 Amsterdam & Nijmegen — our first stop in the Netherlands
Amsterdam is the big one: over 19,000 photographs from the Stadsarchief Amsterdam, covering the canals, the markets, and the Liberation of 1945. Nijmegen brings nearly 5,000 from the Regionaal Archief Nijmegen, including the wrecked Graafsebrug bridge and the long-vanished Hunnerpoort gate.
🇸🇪 Stockholm joins from Sweden
Nearly 4,000 photographs from the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet, K-samsök) are now live and ready to explore.
🇩🇪 Leipzig, and five more German hubs
Leipzig adds more than 2,500 photographs — from the city's old trade-fair streets to the ruins of the Trinity Church. We've also opened a set of smaller German collections: Bamberg, Heidelberg, Potsdam, Trier and Weimar. These are compact but carefully chosen, concentrated around each city's historic heart, so they're best for a short wander rather than a full day out.
In the app
✨ A new Photo of the Day for every city, every night
All nineteen cities now get their own Photo of the Day, chosen fresh each evening from the whole archive, colourised and rebuilt in 3D so you can look around the scene. Open any city and you'll find tonight's pick waiting. Every city also has hand-picked showcase photographs you can step into — stand on the spot where a photograph was taken, and the past is right there next to the present.
🙏 Thank you to the archives that make this possible
A huge thank-you to the institutions that share their collections so openly: Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Regionaal Archief Nijmegen, Riksantikvarieämbetet (K-samsök), the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, and the many Wikimedia Commons contributors behind the Leipzig collection.
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“Stand where history happened.” Navigate to the spot, point your phone's camera, and watch the view slip back 50, 100, even 160 years.
That's issue #2. Pick a city and start exploring.