ChROno reSeaRch lAb
Alles ist Wechselwirkung –Alexander von Humboldt
Everything is Deeply Intertwingled –Ted Nelson
innovation + interaction design for culture projects
Sharing Heritage provides meaning about our present and cause for our future. Open cultural data – as collected and provided by the openGLAM movement (= galleries, libraries, archives, museums) – is a treasure trove of our human history and understanding of the universe. The Chrono Research Lab chooses a few of these cultural wells and republishes collections with new design and interactive interfaces.
Chrono Research Lab: Hamburg | ChronoWorld | ChronoCosmos | Publications
⚓ ChrOno lAb Hamburg
History projects about Hamburg | eculturehh
…wirklich faszinierend. –Denkmalverein Hamburg e.V. (2021)
No Flter ChronoScroll mPhoto History

Chronoscope Hamburg – interactive time-travel in Hamburg on more than 650 vintage maps since 1572
Project of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018
Hamburg Residents 1650 – based on the English High Court of Admiralty records of the 1650s
ChronoAltona
ChronoScroll Altona 1770
ChronoScroll Altenah 1667
Grasbrook
Hafen Hamburg Reloaded 1572-1911
Building Hamburg’s Railway Infrastructure since 1842
Hamburg Reloaded – Koppmann 1883
Hamburg Reloaded – Strumper 1893
Hamburg Reloaded – Photo Dransfeld 1920s
> Dransfeld High Contrast
> Locating Photo Dransfeld’s studio
Fritz Schumacher Bibliography
> FSW XY ungelöst
> Bühnenbild: Fritz Schumacher
Murals documented by Carl Dransfeld
Murals in Hamburg’s Schools /Research Log
Lyonel Feininger
Stolpersteine in Hamburg
Chrono WWII – featuring Operation Gomorrah
mprove photography – urban expeditions
> Schilleroper
Hamburger Sammelsurium – link list to other projects
ChronoHH Event-Kalender für die Metropolregion Hamburg und online
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⚓ Chrono lAb World
History projects with a global scope – roughly sorted old to new.
No Flter ChronoScroll music photography

Chronoscope World – interactive time-travel on More than 8,500 historical maps Lucky Map
> Chronoscope World Tour
> Cartographers
ChronoAtlas – search engine for 1,200 historical maps
ChronoVolcano3D /ChronoScroll
Chronoscope 3D (album)
MosesTrek
From Egypt to Palestine
Robertson, Beato & Co. ::
> A Trip to Egypt 1855
> A Trip to Greece in 1853
> Constantinoples
Beautiful Coins
Chrono CityTour
Project Sternschanze – global tracking of the remains of star fortifications
Marine Lives Project
Chrono Port
Top 10 Ports in Europe
Play Migliai – Spiele ein 320-Jahre altes Cembalo
Coding Da Vinci Award: Sustainability
Silbermann Reloaded
Spiele eine 300-Jahre alte Orgel
Coding Da Vinci Award: Sustainability
ChronoAlex – Alexander von Humboldts Erforschung der Neuen Welt
Chronoscope Berlin – 1,700 photos and 10 aligned maps
Chronoscope Zürich – 6 aligned maps
Leipzig Reloaded – Atelier Walter 1861-1927
Leipzig ’31 – A street car named Leipzig
August Macke. Augenblick.
Photos, Skizzen, Aquarelle der Tunisreise 1914 /Log
HAPAG Ahoi! – travel photography 1909-39
> Oswald Lübeck Kontaktabzug
> Franz Grasser Kontaktabzug
1938-43: La Rivière – Tracking the sculpture by Aristide Maillol /ChronoScroll
Chrono WWII – aerial photography /ChronoScroll
Neumeier Dances – ballet photography by John Johnson
Mariupol Theatre – Маріуполь Драмтеатр, Winter 2021/22
ChronoMedia – 1,937 info spots on culture and history
ChronoTV
Geschichtswettbewerb des Bundespräsidenten 2024 – Ein ChronoScroll zum Thema Grenzen
experimental & research
- Heinrich Zille Kontaktabzug /defekt, kein Zugriff mehr auf die Thumbnails
- Berliner Zeitfenster – Photographie /defekt, kein Zugriff mehr auf die Thumbnails
- Kreuzberger Boheme – Grafiken
- Karl Lutz – WWI – WWII Photographie :: Gare de l'Est ~1940 /Jan 2020
- Sammlung Theodor Bienert – 12.453 Grafiken aus Sachsen auf einer Seite /Jan 2020
- BC (archaeological and prehistoric sites)
- Egypt /Oct 2020
- Max Uhle in Peru
- War – Kriegskarten
- Ramelsloh
à propos
- List of Maps Projects
- The last 36 yrs on Earth
- dinosaurpictures.org :: ancient-earth
- Long Now Seminars
- Zukunfscamp 2014 Keynote von Andri Magnason (Island): May you live in interesting times – Traumland – Wie erfinden wir uns neu? /cf. mprove@insights@mprove
⚓ ChrOno COsmos lAb
From atoms to planets to stars

HERAsim p el Collider – an explorative prototype to visualize the electron and proton packacges going round the particle accelerator
AstroScope
Klang der Sterne | Sound of the Universe /2016
Coding Da Vinci Award: Most Unusual Use of Data
ISS Tempus (album)
à propos
- radio.garden – 8,000 radio stations
- 100,000 stars
⚓ Publications
presentations & papers by mprove:
- Chronoscope World, a IIIF viewer from both sides of the screen, IIIF Friday 2024
- Geo-Spatial Interaction Design for Old Maps /2023 + 2024
- Resources on Geo Interaction Design
- Geo-Interaction-Design-Thinking for Cultural Objects /Digital Material 2021
- Chronoscope World 2.10 and demo video for IIIF Annual Conference 2021
- Was bisher geschah… – Von der Ursuppe zum FluxKompensator /stARTcamp Hamburg 2020:
- Ein Bühnengespräch /stART.camp digital 2020
- Geo Interaction Design – Expeditionen durch Raum und Zeit /NIAM 2020
- Chrono Research Lab – Das Portal für Welt-Zeit-Reisen /stARTcamp 2019
- Hamburg zwischen Alster und Elbe in historischen Karten und Ansichten. Zusammen mit Antje Theise, Hannes Kröger, Sarah Walter /Sommer des Wissens 2019
- A Brief Chronology of the Chronoscope Universe. A working paper 3/2017-2019
- Leibniz Maps /Leipzig 2018
- ChronoHH Research Lab /Innovationsforum eCultureHH 2017
- Chronoscope Hamburg 1883 Reloaded /innoforumHH 2017
- stART.camp Hamburg: Tanz den Orpheus
- stART.camp Hamburg: ChronoHH Reseach Lab
- Building Bridges Between Cultural Institutions and Tech Communities /Sharing is Caring X 2017
- Projektpräsentation Coding Da Vinci Nord: Eine kurze Chronik des Chronoscope Hamburg /Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg 2017
- Chronoscope Hamburg 2.0, Forum Offene Stadt /Körber Forum 2017
- Chronoscope Hamburg /Coding Da Vinci Nord 2016
- VerA\UX – Ausstellungsdesign und Social Media /VerA Nord 2016
- Hyper-Chronoskop /HyperKult XXV, Lüneburg 2015
- Hyper-Chronoskop 0.9 /UX Roundtable Hamburg 2015
- Raum Schiff Erde – Media Center 2010-2016
- Social Informatics – Von Menschen, Maschinen und Medien /Kiel 2009
- Co-Evolution of Humans and Tools /Copenhagen 2009
by noble thinkers and doers:
- Roland Greule, Matthias Kuhr, Matthias Ewald, Made Indrayana, Benjamin Gallagher 2019: VR/AR & UX – Über alte Realitäten im neuen virtuellen Gewand. UX Roundtable 3/2019
- Angeliki Tzouganatou 2018: Can Heritage Bots Thrive? Toward Future Engagement in Cultural Heritage /pdf via
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Monetary Support
The historic and cultural time rides –as provided by the Chrono Research Lab– are a free service by Matthias Müller-Prove. You can explore more then 8,000 georeferenced old maps, browse through more than 5,000 info spots, and enjoy 42 ChronoScrolls and vintage photo sets.
On the other hand this means that there are some expenses on traveling across centuries. You can support future trips by your donation. Thank you!
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à propos
- Republished Media
- Resources > Coding Da Vinci Datensätze
- Republished > Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst und Städtebau 1919 – 1931
- Long Now Seminars
- mprove insights
- Vision & Reality of Hypertext and Graphical User Interfaces :: Kempelen Prize for Computer Science History
Cover: Astronomer by Candlelight /~1665 by Gerard Dou
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