Pastpic pins a city's historic photographs to the exact spots they were taken, then brings them to life with AI: step into a scene in 3D, watch black-and-white bloom into colour, and hold your phone up to see the past over the present. Free, in your browser, in your language.
A whole city's photographic past, geolocated and reanimated. Point your phone and the streets around you slip back 50, 100, even 150 years.
Every photograph pinned to exactly where it was taken. See the history standing right where you are.
AI turns a flat, century-old photo into an explorable 3D scene. Move your phone and look around inside it.
Watch a monochrome scene bloom into lifelike colour at the tap of a button.
Genuine 1800s stereo photographs, brought to motion — true captured depth, no glasses required.
Hold your phone up and blend the historic photograph onto today's live view. Then and now, in one frame.
Search the entire archive in your own language, and discover thousands of images never shown before.
Scan a code or visit the site — nothing to download, works on any phone.
Historic photographs appear on the map around you. Tap any dot.
3D, colour and the live-camera overlay bring the moment back to life.
Pastpic began in Madeira, where 21,000 mapped photographs brought old Funchal back to life. The same engine now travels outward — Lisbon, Paris, Tallinn, Barcelona, Kraków — on its way to hundreds of cities worldwide. Wherever a photographic archive survives, its streets can be walked into again.
Pastpic turns a collection that mostly lives in storage into a free, magical experience in every visitor's pocket — and every view credits and links back to the archive that holds it.
A tourist standing 200 m away, shown your collection and exactly where to see the originals. We drive visitors to your door.
Every image credits your institution and links back to it. A modern shop window for the thousands you can't hang on the walls.
Free for your visitors, free for you. We handle the technology, the AI and the hosting. You bring the heritage; we bring the stage.
Archive, museum, tourist board, investor or simply curious — tell us your city and we'll take it from there.