You don’t just visit history. You become part of it. A free experience — your portrait and your story, created and printed live.
For each visitor, Portrait Bureau creates a personal micro-exhibition: a fictional biography, a unique portrait, wall texts and labels, and a curated selection of artworks and archival documents from museum collections — imagining who they might have been in another time.
Each exhibition is built around a historical period, drawing on the public domain collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rijksmuseum and Paris Musées, with the guidance of art historians.
Portrait Bureau opens eras one at a time. Each destination is a city and a century to travel into.
One portrait or a whole series — museum-quality prints, produced live on site or shipped to your home.
Soon: every piece in your exhibition — from framed prints to sculpted bust portraits — delivered to your home, produced in our Montreuil studio.
Paris, in the heart of the Marais, under the arcades of the oldest square in Paris.
