OpenPlaques

Who We Are

Open Plaques. The Museum of the Street est. 2009

Open Plaques is a community-based project which brings to life the history that plaques encapsulate. We catalogue and curate commemorative plaques and historical markers, often but by no means always blue and round, installed on buildings and landmarks throughout the world.

• We show where plaques are, we identify who or what is commemorated, when they were there, and what they were notable for.
• We uncover this data through a process of painstaking research by our team of volunteer co-curators.
• The data generated by the project are free to use under a Public Domain declaration.