An App to Track Art Exhibitions
The Artifact iOS app lets you follow the works and artists you love and alerts you when one appears at a museum near you. A museum atlas of 5,092 venues helps you plan the visit. Unlike generic listings, alerts are tied to the specific public-domain works you care about.
Most exhibition apps hand you a citywide feed of every show and leave you to dig through it. Artifact flips that around: you follow the specific works and artists you love, and the iOS app tells you when one of them is showing at a museum near you. Pair that with a museum atlas of every venue and you have a way to plan real visits around the art you actually care about.
Updated June 2026
Follow a work, get alerted when it’s near you
In the Artifact iOS app you get alerted when a work or artist you follow appears at a museum near you. Rather than scrolling a generic “what’s on” list, you build a quiet shortlist of the artists and individual paintings that matter to you, and the app watches for them on your behalf.
These near-me alerts are an iOS-app feature — the website is where you browse the catalogue and venues, but the tracking and notifications live in the app. Tracking is part of Artifact Plus, the paid tier.
A museum atlas to plan the visit
When something you follow surfaces, the app helps you plan around it. Artifact maps 5,092 museums and venues, so you can see where a work lives, what else is nearby, and turn a notification into an actual day out.
On the website, the same venue data powers an interactive museum atlas you can explore before you ever open the app — useful for scouting a trip or finding which institutions hold the artists you love.
How it differs from generic exhibition listings
Dedicated exhibition trackers like ArtRabbit and Arting do a good job of aggregating contemporary gallery shows and citywide openings. That is a different job from what Artifact does.
Artifact’s angle is the opposite end of the timeline: it ties alerts to the specific public-domain works and historic artists you have chosen to follow, then connects them to where you can actually go and see them. It is personal, work-first tracking rather than a firehose of every show in town.
| Feature | Typical exhibition apps | Artifact |
|---|---|---|
| What you follow | A city or a feed of all shows | Specific works & artists you choose |
| Alert trigger | New openings in your area | A work you follow appears near you |
| Focus | Contemporary gallery shows | Public-domain works & historic artists |
| Plan the visit | Listing only | Museum atlas of 5,092 venues |
Questions
Is there an app to track art exhibitions?
Yes. The Artifact iOS app lets you follow the works and artists you love and get alerted when a work or artist you follow appears at a museum near you. Browsing the catalogue and venues happens on the website; the tracking and near-me alerts live in the app.
Can I get notified when a specific painting goes on view?
Yes — that is the point of Artifact’s tracking. Instead of a citywide feed, you follow individual works and artists in the iOS app, and it alerts you when one of them appears at a museum near you.
Is exhibition tracking free?
Browsing the catalogue and the museum atlas is free. The near-me exhibition tracking and alerts are part of Artifact Plus, the app’s paid subscription tier — so to follow works and get notified, you need Plus.
How many museums does it cover?
Artifact maps 5,092 museums and venues. You can explore them in the website’s museum atlas to plan a visit, and the app uses the same venue coverage to tell you when a work you follow is showing nearby.