Discover and experience outdoor artwork
With this app, your walk becomes an inspiring art tour: Find and explore outdoor artworks right in your area. Whether sculptures, monuments, murals, or installations – discover the diversity of public art that often goes unnoticed in everyday life. Whether at home or on the other side of the world.
Features:
Find artworks near you:
The app shows you all outdoor artworks in your area on an interactive map. Let yourself be surprised by what there is to discover in your city or while traveling!
Details for each artwork:
Depending on how well the entries at your destination are maintained, you’ll receive background information, images of the artist, and—if available—links to further articles on Wikipedia or other open platforms.
Based on open data:
PublicArtExplorer leverages the strengths of OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. All artworks and information come from these open, community-maintained sources. This way, you benefit from ever-growing and up-to-date data—while also supporting the open data movement.
Get involved and improve:
Do you know of an artwork that’s missing, or do you have additional information? Update OpenStreetMap or Wikipedia and help improve the data. Together, we can give public art the place it deserves!
Accessible and privacy-friendly:
This app is…
- easy to use
- requires no personal data to work
- contains no ads and no hidden trackers—in short, respects your privacy
Location data is needed to show you artworks nearby Internet access is required to load maps and artworks
Why this app? Art in public spaces is for everyone—but we often walk past it without noticing. This app brings information about these works to light, making art in everyday life visible and accessible. At the same time, it encourages active participation in open knowledge projects like OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia.
Become part of the OSM community! Every user can help expand and improve the database. In this way, the collection of artworks keeps growing— for you, for your city, for everyone!
Download the app now and discover outdoor art—right outside your door!
Get it directly from the repository:
https://gitlab.com/toz12/PublicArtExplorer/-/releases
or via an AppStore:
Other AppStores coming soon!!
The flavour of PublicArtExplorer on GooglePlay does not offer the “Expert Mode” feature by default. Expert Mode will be an InApp purchase.
Expert Mode
By default the ExpertMode setting is available on all app flavours published on the free AppStores. For GooglePlay we are asking for an in app subscription to cover the ongoing cost of the professional map service.
Expert Settings:
- Show OSM Raw data for artwork
- Download csv list of artworks currently shown
- Commercial service for OSM map data which should improve speed and reliability (GooglePlay version only)
How about iOS? Not yet, maybe v2
Source Code https://gitlab.com/toz12/PublicArtExplorer
Donations
If you feel like it…
Screenshots
Somewhere in Germany:
Florence Italy:
Easter Island:
