outdoor murals of the world

A global survey of publicly accessible outdoor murals, from monumental landmark works and political memory walls to hidden alleyway and tunnel galleries and small-town mural scenes.

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  • Corredor Muralístico de Aguazarca — This mural corridor in Aguazarca, Calnali, is far from the usual global street-art circuit, which is part of its charm. CICHAZ describes a…
  • Mural de la Correntinidad — Stretching 325 meters along Paseo Arazaty, this panoramic mural was once considered the longest in Latin America. Artists painted it in 199…
  • John Lennon Mural, Landport Tunnel — Inside Gibraltar's historic Landport Tunnel, this portrait mural places pop history inside a fortified gateway once built for defense and c…
  • Mill Tower "Mühleturm" — The former silo tower at Chur's Mühleturm has been used as a vertical canvas since 2018 and is promoted as the largest mural painting in Sw…
  • Barcelona, Mural G-333 — Eduardo Chillida made this work for the MACBA environment in 1998, choosing the dividing wall beside Richard Meier's white museum building…
  • Astronaut/Cosmonaut — Victor Ash's giant black-and-white stencil mural has become one of Berlin's most recognizable pieces of street art. Created in 2007 as part…
  • Freak Alley Gallery — Freak Alley is the kind of place that rewards wandering more than checklist tourism: an open-air mural gallery tucked into a downtown servi…
  • Union Silos — At the former Farmer's Union Co-op grain silos in downtown Minot, Guido van Helten transformed industrial concrete into North Dakota's larg…
  • Never Look Away — Installed in 2021 near Portland's North Park Blocks, this three-story mural turns a city-block wall into a public roll call of LGBTQ activi…
  • América Tropical — David Alfaro Siqueiros painted this politically charged mural in 1932 on Italian Hall above Olvera Street, and its afterlife is as dramatic…
  • Staro Zhelezare Mural Village — Style: Satirical village-wide muralism blending villagers, politicians, celebrities, and cartoon characters. Staro Zhelezare is one of Euro…
  • Heesco Town, Yarram — Style: Narrative rural mural trail with large figurative works tied to local history and community identity. Between 2020 and 2023, Heesco…
  • CVTà Street Fest, Civitacampomarano — Style: Contemporary street art inserted into a depopulating medieval hill town. Civitacampomarano's street-art identity is tied to CVTà Str…
  • MIAU, Fanzara — Style: Village-wide open-air urban art, mixing satire, conceptual play, social commentary, and poetic whimsy. Fanzara's Museo Inacabado de…
  • Newtown Area Graffiti and Street Art — Style: Dense, mixed street-art landscape with political slogans, figurative murals, tags, paste-ups, and lane-way experiments. Newtown is o…
  • Kakaʻako Murals — Style: Open-air neighborhood gallery ranging from graphic patterning to large figurative walls. Kakaʻako's mural scene grew out of a former…
  • Giants — Style: Fantastical figurative muralism on an industrial megascale. OSGEMEOS transformed six concrete silos on Granville Island into towerin…
  • Untitled (Urban Wall) — Style: Hard-edge abstract mural with bold geometric color fields. Roland Hobart's 1973 work is a rare survivor from the Indianapolis Urban…
  • The People's Wall — Style: Political memorial mural rooted in Black liberation history. Painted in 1970 by Dion Henderson and commissioned by the Seattle chapt…
  • The Seattle Mural — Style: Monumental abstract modernism. Paul Horiuchi's 1962 mural is one of the Pacific Northwest's great large-scale public artworks: a swe…