Public Art Registry

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A community-built, openly-licensed map of public art, sculptures, murals, mosaics, and monuments. Browse, photograph, contribute. Every photo is dedicated to the public domain under CC0. publicartregistry.com

A full-size sculpture of a Volkswagen van constructed entirely from pieces of weathered driftwood.
Interior wooden posts carved with a rippled adze texture inside a bakery seating area.
An outdoor cluster of whimsical sculptures made from colourful fishing floats, buoys and beach debris.
A tall carved and painted cedar totem pole with a Thunderbird at the top above a whale, standing outdoors.
A smooth bronze sculpture of an abstract upright human form with sweeping curved lines, on a pedestal.
A carved and painted cedar sign reading Tofino, with the silhouette of a mountainous island and wildlife imagery.
A sculpture assembled from weathered ocean debris, including rope, floats and painted wood, mounted outdoors.
A brightly painted mural of ocean creatures and animals covering the exterior of a utility generator housing.
A large stainless-steel sculpture shaped like a tall glass of water with a straw, in a grassy park by the sea.
A tall carved and painted red cedar totem pole with stacked figures, standing indoors.
A row of large chrome-plated steel rings of varying sizes on concrete pedestals, reflecting their surroundings.
A tall array of angled, coloured glass panels forming an abstract collage, lit as a public artwork.
A bronze sculpture of a winged angel lifting the limp body of a soldier upward, on a stone pedestal outside a station.
A sundial with a carved green nephrite base and a bronze gnomon, set in a garden.
A life-size bronze sculpture of a fisherman leaning back as if pulling hard on an unseen net.
A bronze sculpture of a young couple seated on a bench, the man's arm around the woman, a suitcase resting beside them.
A large geometric welded-steel sculpture, painted, resembling an abstract throne, in a garden.
An abstract travertine stone sculpture with a central opening, set among garden greenery.
Two steel signal poles topped with sculptural forms resembling oversized garden rakes.
A large abstract travertine stone sculpture of rounded and rectangular forms, in a garden.
Four carved basalt stone sculptures with Coast Salish figures, set in a park plaza.
Three tall ceramic poles covered in low-relief figures and patterns, standing outside a building.
Large smooth polished-concrete discs resembling game pieces, set in a garden landscape.
A tall carved cedar house post bearing a two-sided wolf design in relief, painted and finished with metal.
Cast-bronze paving rings and a steel bench set into a waterfront seawall walkway.
A large weathered-steel sculpture shaped like a square arch, its lower edge split and pulled apart, on a paved plaza by the water.
A row of rust-coloured steel panels on a grassy hillside, engraved with columns of names, descending toward the sea.
Two large sculptures shaped like diamond engagement rings, each holding a small illuminated house in place of a gemstone.
A large grey granite inukshuk, a stacked-stone human figure, standing on the shore against the sky.
A weathered granite drinking fountain with an inset bronze portrait plaque, in a park near the beach.
A bronze portrait bust of a bearded man on a stone pedestal at a park entrance.
An intricate abstract concrete relief covering the full height of a building's exterior wall.
A tall abstract stainless steel sculpture resembling an oversized, loosely assembled model airplane, near a park entrance.
A life-size bronze sculpture of a seated woman looking into her handbag, eyeglasses resting on top of her head.
A stepped waterfall of stacked dark stone beside a walkway, with a bronze human figure standing at the top.
A small metal building resembling a weathered board-and-batten freight shed, raised on pilings beside a waterfront path.
A textured copper relief panel mounted above a building's entrance, with patterned enamelled metal doors below.
A long abstract relief frieze cast in concrete running across the upper exterior wall of a mid-century building.
A green sign in the style of a City of Vancouver Parks Board sign, reading "Dude Chilling Park", mounted on a post in a grassy park with trees behind.
A pyramid of bronze oranges stacked on a custom plinth at the Cambie Street end of a pedestrian mews.
A bronze sculpture of 18 pairs of running shoes arranged on a concrete planter wall in an outdoor pedestrian mews between buildings.
Ten bronze baseball caps mounted in a grid on the northwest face of a concrete column at the front entrance of a building.
Five cedar sculptures stand in a row along a multi-use path, each a simplified near-abstract human form retaining the natural grain and texture of the wood.
A long retaining wall decorated with alternating free-form mosaic panels in small tesserae and embossed ceramic tiles patterned with leaf and nature imagery, along the exterior of the Fleetwood Community Centre and Library.
A towering red-cedar figure roughly 16 feet tall, carved in a human form, stands outdoors at Tofino's Village Green against a backdrop of trees and sky.
Interlaced circular forms in aluminum, polished stainless steel, bronze, and dichroic glass mounted as a public sculpture, catching and reflecting ambient light.
A large illuminated cross-shaped sculpture spells EAST VAN in capital letters against the sky, with EAST running vertically and VAN horizontally sharing the letter A.
Two stainless steel lions leap through circular hoops suspended between vertical beams on the deck of Canada Place, with the North Shore mountains visible across the water.
A metal sculpture made of alphabet letters and numerals arranged together outside a library entrance.
Thirteen tall white fibreglass flower forms on powder-coated steel stems rise from a bed of native grasses and clover at the edge of a road, swaying in the wind.
A life-size bronze figure of a diver in mid-pose, mounted at the top of a tall triangular concrete plinth in an outdoor plaza.
A stairwell interior with twisted metal vine-like sculptures running up the beams, dotted with old street lamps that glow softly in jewel-toned colours.
A large outdoor sculpture made of bundled vertical wood poles standing on a hillside, with carved animal figures perched at the top of each cluster.
A tall painted cedar totem pole in muted blues, blacks, and reds, standing in a wooded park, carved with three stacked Kwakwaka'wakw figures.
A tall carved wooden house post standing in an outdoor plaza near a theatre building, with figures and a wolf face carved along its length.
A tall sculpture made of curved and straight steel lines painted bright raspberry pink, standing in a grassy plaza in front of a community building.
Several powder-coated metal animal sculptures in dark tones standing on a grassy area in a park, with trees in the background.
Large concrete bridge pillars painted with bold geometric bands derived from Coast Salish weaving patterns.
A long concrete retaining wall set with rows of ceramic-tile mosaic medallions, running alongside a park path.
A small stone frog sculpture peeks over a textured rock, set inside a wooden gazebo.