Markers that survive outside
Outdoor stickers, plaques, adhesives, testing, replacements, and location maintenance.
Support the archive
Help ordinary places keep their stories.
Support keeps the project public, low-friction, carefully moderated, and visually rigorous: markers, hosting, fieldwork, portraits, audio, editing, and future exhibitions.
Why it matters
The project is free for participants because the real cost is carried behind the scenes.
Every public marker has to be designed, printed, replaced, mapped, monitored, photographed, archived, and moderated. Support helps turn a small Mystic River pilot into a durable public record that can grow without asking participants to pay, download an app, or join a platform.
$25–50Replacement markers, weatherproof tests, QR materials
$100–250Field recording, transcription, portrait-session costs
$500+Chapter expansion, exhibitions, public programming, publication tests
Photographs, portraits, sound
Time on site, participant follow-up, field recordings, editing, captioning, and archive building.
Hosting and preservation
Database hosting, image and audio storage, moderation tools, backups, and long-term access.
Ways to help
Money is useful. So are places, access, and trust.
Curators, community groups, libraries, museums, local businesses, educators, and residents can support the project by suggesting meaningful sites, hosting conversations, helping identify participants, sharing local history, or sponsoring a chapter.
For sponsors and institutions
Memory Map Project can be scaled thoughtfully as a public-history program, exhibition, educational partnership, artist residency, or place-based community archive.
The strongest collaborations preserve the project’s core principle: a very simple public invitation supported by serious documentary care.
Start a conversation
Use the contact page for sponsorships, grants, curatorial conversations, media, community partnerships, or bringing a Memory Map chapter to another place.
Contact the project