What it is
One search. Every museum.
Find the Painting answers a question every art-loving traveller has asked: which museums in this city have work by the artist I love?
Maybe you're in Milan for a conference and wonder if there are any Caravaggios nearby. Or you're planning a trip to London specifically to hunt down every Dalí in the city. This tool is built for both.
“The tools that exist are built for browsing. This is built for travel intent — you know your city and your artist, and you want a cross-institution answer, fast.”
How it works
Built on open knowledge
Search results
Results are powered by Wikidata, the free collaborative knowledge base maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. We query their public SPARQL endpoint in real time — results reflect the latest data in the knowledge base.
Painting images
Images come from Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. All images are in the public domain or used in accordance with their respective licences.
Coverage
Always confirm before you travel
Wikidata's coverage varies: major institutions like the Louvre, the Rijksmuseum, and the Metropolitan have comprehensive digitisation programmes, while smaller regional galleries may have limited entries. Works are also sometimes on loan, in storage, or under conservation — always confirm with the museum directly before planning a visit.
The Hidden Gem badge
Rewarding the unexpected find
Works held at less widely-known institutions are marked with a 💎 Hidden Gem badge. Any institution not on our curated list of major world museums earns it. These are often the most rewarding discoveries — a Rembrandt in a small regional museum, or a Monet in a private collection open to the public.