Public Art Registry

Public Art Registry is a community-built map of public art. Every city is an open-air gallery — sculptures in the park, murals down the alley, mosaics in the transit station, monuments you walk past every day. Public Art Registry puts all of it on one map, and lets anyone help document the pieces that aren't on it yet.

EXPLORE • Browse a live map of public artworks near you, or anywhere you travel. • Pins are colour-coded by type — sculpture, mural, mosaic, installation, monument — so a glance shows you what's around. • Open any artwork for photos, location, materials, artist, and history. • Search by artwork or artist name. • Get walking directions to any piece.

CONTRIBUTE • Add an artwork in a few taps: a photo, a location, a few words. • The app finds artworks already near you, so records merge instead of duplicating. • Suggest a correction whenever you spot something wrong. • Every submission is checked by a moderator before it goes public.

OPEN DATA, FOR EVERYONE • Everything contributed is dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0) — free for researchers, journalists, artists, map-makers, and anyone else to reuse, no permission needed. • No ads. No trackers. No data sold. • A cultural archive that belongs to the commons, not to us.

WHY IT MATTERS Public art is fragile. Murals fade and get painted over, sculptures are removed, the municipal records that listed them go offline. When a piece disappears undocumented, its story goes with it.

Public Art Registry exists so that history isn't lost — built by the people who walk past these works every day. Browsing is open to everyone. Adding or correcting an artwork takes a free account. Start exploring at publicartregistry.com.