You don’t just visit history. You become part of it. A free experience: your portrait and your story, created and printed live.
Some images on this site are generated with AI.
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.
Four examples, among many others.
Step into an immersive experience where technology meets art. A screen reads your face and transforms you across the ages, in the style of France's greatest paintings.
A gentle scan reads your face and begins your story.
A fictional life takes shape: who you might have been in another time.
Printed live on site, a timeless keepsake of a possible life.
One portrait or a whole series: museum-quality prints, produced on site while you wait, or shipped worldwide within 10 working days.
Prints from €39 · the experience is free
Soon: every piece in your exhibition from framed prints to sculpted bust portraits delivered to your home, produced in our Montreuil studio.
Every piece of your exhibition can become an object. Painted on canvas, sculpted as a bust, engraved in metal: made by hand in our Montreuil workshop, in any era and any style.
One experience, four formats: for yourself, for your guests, for your team, or for good.
For you
Upload a photo or walk in. You get your portrait and your story in under a minute, and pay only if you keep it.
Free to create · prints from €39A4 to A2, framed, or as a catalogue
Create mine, free
For your event
We bring the wall and the terminals to your venue, install in a few hours, and print every guest's portrait live on site.
On quotation · booked by the dayWeddings · companies · museums · hotels
To offer
No event, no installation. Send us the faces, a team, a guest list, a family, and we deliver their portraits, boxed, to every address.
From €39 per portraitVolume pricing from 20 · worldwide shipping
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For good
Your portrait repainted on canvas, sculpted as a bust, engraved as a medal or a jewel, by hand, in our Montreuil atelier.
From €200Any era, any style, on commission
See the atelierParis, in the heart of the Marais, under the arcades of the oldest square in Paris.
