Anyone can photograph a mural. Someone has to tell you who painted it.
Which Wynwood tour gets you inside the Walls. What a workshop costs when you spray your own piece. Reviews of every street art tour you can book, city by city.
Four street art tours that show what a good one does.
A room of Banksys in Amsterdam, an afternoon in Comuna 13, an East End graffiti walk and a Belfast black taxi. What each costs, and what the paint is actually saying.
01The indoor oneMoco Museum Amsterdam Entrance Tickets with Banksy & MoreBanksy, Haring and a warehouse of murals under one roof on a timed ticket. The plan for the afternoon it rains.
02The famous oneComuna 13 Graffiti Tour, Cable Car & Street FoodUp the outdoor escalators through Comuna 13 with a guide from the barrio, cable car and street food on the way.
03The London walkStreet Art and Graffiti Guided Walking TourEast End walls with someone who can tell you whose piece is whose and how long it is likely to last.
04The Belfast oneMurals Taxi TourThe Falls and the Shankill by black taxi, the gable ends read out by a driver who lived through what they show.
America paints by the district: Wynwood, Bushwick, downtown Nashville.
The biggest cluster of street art tours on the site is American, and almost all of it is concentrated in a handful of painted blocks. Three ways in, what each costs to join, and which city it belongs to.
Six cities where the street art is the reason to walk.
Painted warehouses in Miami, Bordalo II animals on the Lisbon hills, gable ends in Belfast, the East End paste-ups, Berlin courtyards and trainsides, and the muralist tradition of Mexico City.
Street art on foot, from a saddle, or with a can in your hand.
The same district reads differently at three miles an hour. Walking tours for the detail and the artists’ names, bike tours for the distance between painted neighbourhoods, workshops for the morning you stop photographing walls and start filling one.
Wynwood is a neighbourhood that agreed to be painted.
Dead warehouse blocks handed over to muralists, repainted around Art Basel every December, with a ticketed courtyard of commissioned pieces in the middle of it. Tours run on foot, by bike and by golf cart, and the good ones start before the Florida sun turns the lot into a griddle.
The street art tours more travellers take than any others.
Every street art tour we have reviewed →One museum ticket, one hillside barrio, one taxi tour and a run of city walks. These sit at the top across every city on the site, and each one earns the slot differently.
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Moco Museum Amsterdam Entrance Tickets with Banksy & More
Visit Moco Museum on Museumplein for more than 100 works by Banksy, Warhol, Haring, Basquiat, Kusama, Hirst, KAWS, and others. Move at your own pace, use the free six-language audio guide, and allow about one to one-and-a-half hours for the art, digital rooms, garden, and shop.
From · $18
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Comuna 13 Graffiti Tour, Cable Car & Street Food
from $18
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Xochimilco, Coyoacan, Frida Kahlo Museum & Murals Tour
from $89
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Moco Museum Barcelona Banksy & More
from $19
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Streetart Museum STRAAT Entrance Ticket
from $25
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Murals Taxi Tour
from $51
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Blackbeard to Banksy – The Ultimate Walking Tour of Bristol
from $18
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Moco Museum Amsterdam Admission Ticket with Banksy and more
from $27
What a street art tour costs, from a museum ticket to a private day.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. Most city walks and collection tickets land under fifty dollars, and the paint is free either way.
City walks, museum and Banksy-collection tickets, and the shorter graffiti tours.
Half-day rides, golf-cart districts, black-taxi mural tours and most workshops.
Private guides, artist-led studio days, and the tours that put a whole car or cart at your disposal.
Three places where the paint is the whole story.
Murals turn up in every city now. A warehouse district repainted every December, a hillside that told its own history in spray paint, and a peace line you can still put your hand on do not.
The Wynwood Walls
A developer bought a block of dead warehouses in 2009 and offered the outsides to muralists. The Walls themselves are now a ticketed courtyard of commissioned work, refreshed around Art Basel each December, and the streets for blocks around carry the overflow for nothing. Golf carts cover the ground fast; on foot you get the doorways and the tags between the big pieces.
- 1Wynwood Graffiti Golf Cart Small-Group Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,646 reviews
- 2Wynwood Walls Skip-the-Line Ticket★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 840 reviews
- 3Wynwood Art District 1-Hour Street Art Tour by Golf Cart★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 492 reviews
Comuna 13
This hillside was the most feared address in the city inside living memory. Outdoor escalators now run up it, and the walls tell that story in paint made largely by people who were there, with hip hop crews and ice cream carts working the same steps. Guides come from the barrio, which is the entire reason to take one rather than walk it alone.
- 1Comuna 13 Graffiti Tour, Cable Car & Street Food★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 9,046 reviews
- 2Medellín: Comuna 13 Tour with Snacks And Your Own Graffiti★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 311 reviews
- 3Medellín: Comuna 13 and Graffiti Guided Tour with a Local★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 239 reviews
The gable ends
Belfast puts its politics on the ends of terraces, and the peace line still stands between the Falls and the Shankill. Black-taxi drivers work both sides, stopping at murals they can date and explain, and the run usually finishes at a wall covered in visitors’ handwriting. None of it is decoration. Read it before you photograph it.
- 1Murals Taxi Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 2,047 reviews
- 2Belfast’s Political Mural Taxi Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,180 reviews
- 3Famous 1.5 hour Belfast Murals Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 477 reviews
The mural you saved a photograph of may already be painted over.
Street art is temporary on purpose. Pieces get buffed, tagged, or covered by whoever comes next, and a good guide rewalks the route every week. If you need a specific piece to still be there, book the ones that keep theirs: a collection indoors, a ticketed wall garden, or a workshop where the piece you photograph is the one you made.
Four street art bookings that will not wait.
Most of this can be arranged the night before over a beer. These four run on timed tickets, on one car per group, or on the number of spray cans in the room.
- 01Moco Museum Amsterdam Entrance Tickets with Banksy & MoreEntry is a timed slot and the collection is small, so the good hours go first.
- 02Brooklyn Graffiti Workshop with Local ArtistA workshop is limited by wall space and cans. Groups are small and they fill early.
- 03Wynwood Walls Skip-the-Line TicketThe Walls are a ticketed courtyard with their own opening hours, and every district tour is planned around them.
- 04Murals Taxi TourA black-taxi mural tour is one car for your group. The slot is either free or it is gone.
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