About us

Discover Explore is an online, offline exploration game that helps young people and their families discover hidden, extraordinary, important and historical stories and places throughout the UK.

Using the latest online technologies, explorers use the website to download missions then head off on adventures to uncover 400 million years of natural and human stories.

The game encourages families to get outdoors and become involved in inspirational, and creative activities.

Discover Explore is part of Discovering Places, the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad campaign to inspire the UK to discover its local, natural and built environments and has been created in partnership with The Workshop. The initial research and development of Discover Explore was done in partnership with The Geography Collective and the original artwork is by The Geography Collective and Tom Morgan-Jones.

Discovering Places is managed by The Heritage Alliance and delivered in partnership with the London 2012 Organising Committee of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games (LOCOG).

The Heritage Alliance, established in 2002 as Heritage Link, is the biggest alliance of heritage interests in the UK and was set up to promote the central role of the non-Government movement in the heritage sector.

Discovering Places is funded by a grant from Olympic Lottery Distributor (OLD) through the London Organising Committee of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG).