Public Art Registry
Map the art around you
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
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.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Quality-of-life fixes:
• The on-screen keyboard no longer hides the Submit or Acknowledge license buttons when you're uploading a photo or sending feedback.
• The "Submitted, pending review" screen now has a "View artwork" button so you can jump straight back to the artwork you just added a photo to. The buttons there are also properly centered now.
• Tidied the bottom bar — the feedback icon moved into the side menu.
The developer, Steven Smethurst, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- User Content
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Steven Smethurst
- Size
- 45.6 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © 2026 Public Art Registry