Art Maps Archives - Art on the Underground

Spaghetti Map

Leaflets are available at South Kensington, Battersea, Nine Elms, Westminster, St James’ Park, Edgware Road (circle line), Tottenham Court Road, Whitechapel, Manor House, Arsenal and Blackhorse Road Underground stations from 22 July.

Spaghetti Map is a free interactive leaflet that explores artworks permanently installed on London’s Underground. It invites primary-aged children to think like artists while Underground during the 2026 summer holidays. It is created by Spaghetti Club, an art and creative writing collaboration between artist Michael Crowe and more than 100 children from five London primary schools.

The new art map for kids features six artworks commissioned by Art on the Underground since 2012. It brings together Jacqueline Poncelet’s Wrapper – a 1,500m vitreous enamel artwork that covers Edgware Road’s Circle line substation – and Larry Achiampong’s 2022 pan-African roundel at Westminster Underground station PAN AFRICAN FLAG FOR THE RELIC TRAVELLERS’ ALLIANCE (UNION), as well as other permanent commissions by artists including Daniel Buren, Alexandre da Cunha, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings and Mark Wallinger.

Spaghetti Map draws on references from sunsets and angels to Greek mythology and Ghanaian Akan symbols to introduce the Art on the Underground commissions, showing how artworks in public space bring imagination into daily life. Short introductions to the artworks are followed by text and image-based prompts that invite creative responses, with space to write and draw. Integrated throughout Spaghetti Map, material by primary students Crowe collaborated with provides further inspiration and highlights humour as a way of connecting to art.

The leaflet is available online and at 11 London Underground stations including those where artworks are displayed and stations local to collaborating primary schools. Seven new posters with original drawings and writing by four primary students are also on show in the South Kensington Subway, which links South Kensington Underground station to the Natural History, Science and Victoria & Albert museums.

Artist and Spaghetti Club founder Michael Crowe, said: “Spaghetti Map isn’t an “A to B” style map, it’s a map for ideas, inviting children to think like artists and put pen to paper while Underground. It’s an invitation to children and adults to get to know a local artwork, and to look out for others while traveling through the city. Did you know there’s a unique Mark Wallinger artwork in every Underground station?”

Brixton Botanical Map

This map of green spaces in Brixton addresses the legacies of the British empire and celebrates local botanical education, community gardening and food growing initiatives, whilst looking at gardens as places to consider injustice, oppression and colonial legacy.

The map features seven green spaces in and around Brixton, which detail the entwined histories of colonialism and botany, and signpost local community gardening initiatives. It also features a kid’s trail, a glossary which queries the common use of colonial and racist language in horticulture, a reading list and a list of additional local green spaces.

By unearthing sensitive histories, the Brixton Botanical Map highlights green spaces as sites of learning, loss and remembrance, but also of radical action and possibility.

This map responds to, and expands on, ‘Things Held Fast’, a new public commission at Brixton Underground station by Australian artist Helen Johnson.

Collect your free copy from Brixton Underground station, Brixton Library, Brixton Windmill Centre, Brockwell Park Community Garden, the Garden Museum and the South London Botanical Institute or download a free pdf below.

Brixton Mural Map

Murals are indicators of both place and time. During the 1970s and 80s, London became an important centre for mural production. Murals from this period represent the political climate, social context and communities who collaboratively made them. These qualities define the murals that populate Brixton today. However, as London is further developed, many murals are being damaged or destroyed. The surviving murals reveal the rapid change London has undergone in the past few decades, but they have not received the same recognition, protection and conservation as other public artworks or heritage sites in the city.

This Mural Map shares the stories behind Brixton’s murals and makes these overlooked public artworks more visible.

Eduardo Paolozzi Art Map

The Eduardo Paolozzi Art Map is a comprehensive guide to Paolozzi’s mosaics at Tottenham Court Road station, where the artist reimagined the station as a huge expanse of colour, movement, figure, shimmer and shape. The map also highlights his other public works across the city, including pieces in Euston, King’s Cross and Pimlico.

If you are unable to pick up a copy in one of the Zone 1 stations please get in touch

Summer Art Map

Art on the Underground partnered with Art Fund, The Fourth Plinth, Frieze Sculpture and Sculpture in the City to create the Summer Art Map – a comprehensive guide to public art across London this summer.

The map brings together over 40 public artworks across the city from Regents Park, Trafalgar Square, to the Square Mile. It also includes five permanent artworks on display in Tube stations across the Capital and is accompanied by a text by Louisa Buck, writer and broadcaster on contemporary art.

Pick up your free copy at all zone 1 stations during Summer 2017, or click the link below to download the map straight to your phone.

Get involved online and enter fantastic competitions using #SummerArtMap

Art Map

The Art Map is a comprehensive guide to art on the Underground, contextualising iconic artworks that form the backdrop to the journeys of millions who use the Tube every day. It is a practical tool, assisting commuters and visitors to London to discover artworks made for the tube since 1929, including Henry Moore’s first public commission. The Art Map is available in all Zone 1 stations from March 2026.

10-years after initial publication, the Art Map has been expanded to reflect the addition of 6 major permanent commissions since 2016, by artists including Larry Achiampong; Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings and Alexandre da Cunha. It also highlights internationally renowned temporary artworks within Art on the Underground’s programme, which challenges the idea that public art is fixed.

To mark the launch of the 2026 Art Map, Art on the Underground will present a programme of artist and curator talks in Tube stations on Sunday 8th March. Further info and booking information is available here.