museum guest-book archives

Years of guest books are sitting in the back room.

Every one is a record of who came and where they came from. Photograph them a book at a time, and they become a history of your attendance, year by year.

For museums, historic houses and historic sites.

30 days, 150 pages, no card.

what you do

Three steps. No app to install.

  1. Photograph a book a weekOver the quiet months, photograph one book a week with any phone, or upload scans and PDFs. Volunteers can help with an upload link, no account needed.
  2. Keep the dates in the bookWhen you upload, use the dates written on the pages. Each entry keeps its date, so old visits land in the right month and year.
  3. Check every pageEach name, hometown and date sits next to the photo of the page. Your staff fix anything we misread before the page counts.
what you get

Numbers you can hand to anyone who asks.

Visitors by year

As far back as your books go, and by month within each year.

Where visitors came from

Hometowns by state and country, then and now.

A map you can share

Counts by area, never names, ready for your website or a board meeting.

Reports for your board and grants

Monthly counts and funder exports, as CSV or PDF.

Pages like these are archive pages. An archive page is a guest-book page whose dates end more than 12 months before you add it. Standard includes 1,000 archive pages in your first paid year. More are $99 for each 1,000, one time.

see it live

A real map from real guest books.

Here's a live map from a visitor center in Omaha, Nebraska. It shows where its recorded visitors came from, by state and country, with counts only and never names. Your account gets a map like it, built the same way from your own pages and check-ins.

Start with one old guest book.

Create your account, add your site and photograph a page. No app to install, no setup call.

30 days, 150 pages, no card. After the trial, Standard is $490 a year or $49 a month. Start by January 31, 2027 and it is $390 a year for as long as you stay subscribed. See pricing