Are you here because you heard about, saw, or wanted to find some of Chicago’s “big hitter” public art objects: the Picasso, the Calder, the Chagall, the Miro, the Dubuffet, or another of Chicago’s famous sculptures?

Or did you already know that Chicago’s public art collection makes it the nation’s premiere indoor/outdoor museum of public art? If you didn’t know that, this site will help you to understand how and why that is. It will show you where to find any one or any number of publicly viewable sculptures, mosaics, murals, installations, reliefs, paintings, tapestries and other objects of art in the city.

This will be a work in progress and will evolve as it grows. The initial map currently resides elsewhere and has only basic information on it. As we move deeper into the project, the map will reside here and will have deep and rich information, allowing a visitor to locate a specific piece of public art or to develop a personal tour of art in the city. It will also contain extensive information about objects and the artists who created them.

Other related projects, including a complete guide to Chicago’s public art, are in the works. We will keep you informed about these projects as they move forward.

Meanwhile, please enjoy Chicago’s vast collection of public art. We hope you come to appreciate, as we have, that the world-class cultural possibilities and resources of this great city include not just its astonishing architecture, its many universities and colleges, its blues, jazz, folk, classical music and opera, and its art museums, but also its public art, the art that comprises the Chicago Museum Without Walls^©.

^{So while we’re getting the full-scale map together, use this map as a guide. It should keep you busy.}

^{Oh - by the way . . . did you wonder what those objects at the top of the page are? Just “fly” your cursor over any one of them and the artist and title will pop up. You can locate each of them on the map.}