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:
PublicArtExplorer 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 travelling!
Details for each artwork:
Click on an artwork and receive background information, images of the artist, and links to 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 OSM 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!
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Download the app now and discover outdoor art—right outside your door!
Get it directly from the PublicArtExplorer git repository:
https://gitlab.com/toz12/PublicArtExplorer/-/releases
or via an AppStore:
User voices
Expert Mode
By default the ExpertMode setting is available on all app flavours published on the free AppStores.
For GooglePlay we will be 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)
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How about iOS?
Not yet, maybe v2
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Donations
Screenshots
Somewhere in Germany:
Florence Italy:
Easter Island:
