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ACE District Map

Ottawa Art GalleryWordPress plugin, bilingual mapLaunching November 2026

ACE District Map turns Ottawa’s Arts, Culture & Entertainment District into a map of stories.

The ACE District map of downtown Ottawa: clustered location markers in the district’s own icons across the ByWard Market, Parliament Hill and Sandy Hill.
Locations on the map
90Locations on the map
Fully bilingual
EN / FRFully bilingual
Places tested, so it can grow with the district
3,000Places tested, so it can grow with the district

Every article and walking itinerary is tied to the places it mentions, and every place leads back to its stories, so a reader can walk from the page into the city. Bilingual, accessible and built in the district’s own brand, it’s a living platform for cultural placemaking, made with and for the Ottawa Art Gallery.

The ACE District is Ottawa's Arts, Culture & Entertainment District: galleries, museums, music venues, festivals, restaurants and late-night bars across the downtown core, brought together under one brand by the Ottawa Art Gallery. Its website told the district's story through editorial pieces and walking itineraries. Its map was a generic Google Maps plugin that didn't connect to any of it.

Malovey Labs built a custom WordPress plugin that makes the district's places the centre of the site. Ninety locations sit on a map in the ACE District's own colours, icons and type, grouped by category and opening on the downtown core. Every place gets its own page with hours, address and directions, plus links to the stories and itineraries that mention it.

Walking itineraries draw a dotted route along real streets, and an accessible directory lists every location for anyone who would rather not use a map. It runs in English and French, works with the site's existing Elementor pages, and is built on open map data. It was tested to stay smooth with 3,000 places, so it can grow with the district.

  • An ACE District walking itinerary on the map: a dotted route along the Ottawa River, past Major’s Hill Park, to the Bytown Museum, each stop marked with the district’s own icons.
    Walking itineraries trace a dotted route along real streets.
  • A map pop-up for the Ottawa Art Gallery showing its address, four stories it is featured in, and a Directions button.
    Every place links to the stories that mention it.
  • The Plaza Bridge place page: its categories, address, the stories it appears in, and a small map in the district’s style.
    Every location gets its own page in the site.
  • A map pop-up for the Bytown Museum listing the walk and the story it appears in.
    Places, walks and stories are connected across the whole site.
  • The Ottawa School of Art place page on the ACE District site: its categories, address, the Nuit Blanche story it appears in, a Directions button, and a map pinned to 35 George Street.
    Galleries, schools and venues each get a page in the district’s own brand.

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