Smart Phone Apps
To let you take our maps, podcasts, and photos on the go, we created Android and iPhone apps that puts the Museum Without Walls at your fingertips. It gives you instant access to the thousands of pieces of public art and architecture you'll find on our website, plus tour routes, historical info, and analysis. Stand in front of any of the over 4500 works in our database and read background material, follow links, look at pictures, and hear the artist or architect speak and find nearby listings - all on your phone.


Android - Get the full
cultureNOW app


Android - Get the Free
Lower Manhattan app


iPhone - Get the full
cultureNOW app


iPhone - Get the Free
Lower Manhattan app





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Curate your own tour of the urban landscape with work by artists like Picasso, Arp, Calder, Lichtenstein, Haring, Koons, Beuys, Dine, Hirst, Hockney, Bourgeois, and Botero and architects like McKim, Mead & White, Cass Gilbert, Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson, I.M. Pei, Richard Meier, Renzo Piano, and Jean Nouvel. Or take one of our easy-to-follow set audio tours, with podcasts that guide you through culturally significant areas like Midtown, Broadway, Audubon Terrace, and 125th St. in Harlem. Themed tours like "Revolutionary NYC" and "Harlem: The Capital of Black America" focus on a specific era or theme. All entries are searchable by title and artist or architect, and a handy location search feature lets you find works of art anywhere in the world.

Over 10,000 photos supplement our arts listings, while our rapidly growing pool of podcasts, recorded by prolific public artists like Richard Haas and Tony Rosenthal and scholars like Lance Brown of City College and Bill Menking of Pratt, give an evolving picture of the city's landscape. Our offerings are constantly evolving, so expect frequent updates with new listings, photos, podcasts, and tour itineraries.