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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.
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! Check out the Tagging page for additional information.
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
Permissions
Location permission is needed to show you artworks nearby Internet permission 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 PublicArtExplorer git repository: Codeberg
or via an AppStore:
Source code: Repository
Expert Mode
Expert Mode primarily allows you to add and edit artworks. However, you should have some understanding of how OpenStreetMap works — hence the name Expert Mode.
If you just want to explore, leave it switched off. If you want to actively contribute to improving the data, switch it on.
All new data is saved to the OpenStreetMap. Images of artworks are automatically uploaded to Wikimedia Commons under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
To edit OpenStreetMap data, you need your own OpenStreetMap account. If you also want to add images, you will additionally need a Wikipedia account.
If you get the app from the Google Play Store, you can unlock Expert Mode by purchasing an in-app subscription. This also gives you access to a commercial map based on Mapbox.
Additional features:
- View raw OSM data
- Download a CSV list of the displayed artworks
- Access a commercial map service for OSM map data
Donations
If you feel like it…donations
Screenshots
Somewhere in Germany:
Florence Italy:
Easter Island:
