Updated on 2 June 2025
Bringing Stories to Life Through Augmented Reality Viewing Scopes
About
Historiscope is our custom-designed AR viewing scope that brings the past into view, blending physical interaction with digital storytelling to create meaningful on-site experiences. Visitors simply look through the scope and see layers of history appear in front of them, right where they happened.
We’ve piloted and tested Historiscope with over 150,000 visitors at heritage sites like Stirling Castle and Urquhart Castle. The experience is designed to be intuitive, accessible, and engaging for all ages, offering a fresh way to connect people to place.
We’re now exploring opportunities to collaborate with heritage sites, museums, and cultural venues interested in creating place-based AR storytelling for their audiences. Each installation is bespoke — developed with curators, communities, and local histories at its heart.
If you’re curious about how Historiscope could support interpretation at your site, we’d love to start a conversation.
Stage
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Design - setting the project scope
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
Topic
- EIT CC Calls
- HEU Partnership: Resilient Cultural Heritage
- HEU Partnership: Virtual Worlds
- Other relevant EU initiatives
- Cultural Heritage in the Digital Europe Program
Call
- HERITAGE-04: Leveraging artificial intelligence for creativitydriven innovation
- HERITAGE-05: Evolution of culture in a virtualising world
- HERITAGE-08: Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe’s contentious and dissonant heritage
Organisation
Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
XR for cultural heritage, museums and cities.
- EIT CC Calls
- Completing the consortia
- Consortium seeks Partners
- Other relevant EU initiatives
- HEU Partnership: Virtual Worlds
- Design - setting the project scope
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
- Cultural Heritage in the Digital Europe Program
- HERITAGE-05: Evolution of culture in a virtualising world
- HERITAGE-04: Leveraging artificial intelligence for creativitydriven innovation
- HERITAGE-08: Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe’s contentious and dissonant heritage
Pooja Katara
Director at SENSEcity
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Project cooperation
Video Games as a Tool for Heritage Communication: The Case of Casa de las Posadas
- EIT CC Calls
- TMO Synergy Grants
- Consortium seeks Partners
- HEU Partnership: Virtual Worlds
- Design - setting the project scope
- HEU Partnership: Resilient Cultural Heritage
- Partner seeks Consortium (Expertise offered)
- Cultural Heritage in the Digital Europe Program
- HERITAGE-05: Evolution of culture in a virtualising world
- HERITAGE-01: Co-funded European partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage
- HERITAGE-03: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative use cases
- HERITAGE-02- two-stage: Innovative approaches to intangible cultural heritage for societal resilience
Matías Montero
Architect at Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Cuenca
Cuenca, Ecuador
Project cooperation
Open Cultural Heritage Network
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- HEU Partnership: Resilient Cultural Heritage
- Partner seeks Consortium (Expertise offered)
- Cultural Heritage in the Digital Europe Program
- HERITAGE-01: Co-funded European partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage
- HERITAGE-03: A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative use cases
- HERITAGE-08: Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe’s contentious and dissonant heritage
Klaus E. Werner
Digital Humanities at Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome at Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome
Rome, Italy