Statuemap.com - a community-based, interactive art database, where users can upload pictures in less than 1 min, add descriptions, provide missing (meta)data and additional photos to the existing ones.

We call every new info a "HUG" and you can vote for it if you think it is valuable. This way the communication and interaction remains transparent, efficient and simple - all social.

How to use

• Upload your photo
• Place the statue on the map
• Write a short description of the artwork
• Identify the artwork on Statuemap.com if you come across similar statue already existing there, optionally upload your own photo of the artwork, comment on it or add new info
• Follow a statue, an artist, a city or a user and get updates easily

You can find detailed instructions at Frequently asked questions.

Story of Statuemap

Our journey started in 2006, when Szoborlap.hu was founded. It started as a personal site for collecting (mostly black/white) pictures of statues and poems and placing them on a map. Two years later it turned into a community site, with stricter rules on how to introduce a statue.

The collective work transformed the site into a Wikipedia-like database, accuracy of data becoming a very important factor. In the end of 2010 the site hosted close to 12,000 artpages and 70,000 photos.

2007 was the year when I started to develop the international version of Szoborlap.hu, this being the first version of Statuemap. It grew slowly, and after a while it turned out that it was impossible to make it a Szoborlap-like site. After 2 years I shut it down and started to work on a new concept.

This fresh thinking comes from the experience with Szoborlap and from the need for a simple and user-friendly website. Szoborlap's English uploads are for the time being the default database of the site but after a while I do hope that users from around the world - like You - will find here the joy and passion for a new hobby: collecting public art!

I hope you'll find the site easy to use. If you have an idea or come across a bug please use the "Feedback" button on the left side. If you have a question, just drop me an email by using the Contact form.
Enjoy!

Tamás Pál, founder & developer of Statuemap.com