Museum of Walking

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Featured collection

Walking

1402 items 75 sub-collections
Sound walk
Sound walk SWS26 New 2026

Bankside at Work

A free sound walk through Bankside. At each stop you hear a short story about someone who lived or worked there. It starts at Bert Hardy's childhood home and ends at Shakespeare's Globe.

Walking piece
Walking piece New 2018

Marking – Marquer

This mark-making device traces a walked line on a scale of 1:1

Happened
walkingevent  

Moving Images, Moving Worlds

2026-09-12 18:00
Erfgoedhuis Hof ter Welle, Anna Piersdreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

An evening dedicated to walking, travel and migration in film, and a conversation with the filmmakers. Featuring the world premiere of Flowers of Ichijo – Art Walk Kyoto, 2026 by Pierre Tremblay and screening of Cantar o Morir, 2022 by Gigarcircus.

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
WALC
Happened
walkingevent  

Launch of Polder Lab & NYMPH / LYMPH

2026-09-12 09:00
Erfgoedhuis Hof ter Welle, Anna Piersdreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

Launch of Polder Lab and the multimedia performance NYMPH / LYMPH, exploring water as a living connective system.

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
WALC
post Featured New 03 Sep, 2026

What Walking Art Notices

An attempt at characterising 76 works in the WLC archive suggests that walking art makes urban conditions perceptible in ways that conventional walkability measures rarely do. Through altered routes, sensory attention, collective movement and counter-mapping, these pieces expose the histories, power relations, ecological conditions and embodied constraints that shape how space can be inhabited.

video New 2026  

Following the Moon from One End of the World to the Other

For WALC Confluence 14 – Eléonore Ozanne writes: *For the third time, we will be walking together, women, following the full moon, from one end of the world to the other… Last year, on 6 October 2025, we drifted in the same direction on a walk that, thanks to the time zones, lasted around 24 hours. The

WALC

Australian Walking Artists 24/25

Molly Wagner
video New 2020  

Sailing the Muga river

Sailing the Muga explores how walking became a practice of learning, unlearning and shared attention. Along the Muga River, the hammock emerged as a methodology, giving rise to an international community that continues beyond the expedition.

Walk Notations

Eirini Fountedaki
Curated news New 05 Sep, 2026

Most walkable cities in the world: the top 30 for 2026

Most walkable cities in the world for 2026, ranked from 1 to 30 using more than 467,000 verified GuruWalk walking-tour reviews Source: Most walkable cities in the world: the top 30 for 2026

Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto26 New 2026

Radical Gestures: A Little Free Library Walk

Books chosen from little free libraries acted as the guide on a walk embracing happenstance and the power of story.

Walking piece
Walking piece New 2021

Boundary Surveys – Opérations cadastrales

Meditating on shared space, our boundary surveys in the living environment question the perception of land as a surface to be parcelled and possessed.

Featured collection

psychogeography

378 items 8 sub-collections
Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto26 New 2026

A Walking Tour Under the Umbrella

From Dada to Fluxus and beyond, this article explores how guided tours can become performative walks that invite collective, critical and embodied ways of experiencing place.

Happened
Walking Writers Salon  

Because the streets belong to everyone

2026-02-10 19:00
Online

Morag Rose, author of the widely acclaimed The Feminist Art of Walking will be joined in conversation with author and poet  Polly Atkin for our first Walking Writers Salon on 2026. For over 20 years Morag Rose has been seeking company, undertaking a wide range of explorative wanders on foot through her home city of

walkingevent New  

Psychogeography Photo Walk

Sabby; hosted by DW
2026-09-20 01:00
60 Leicester St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia

A public introduction to psychogeography followed by a photographic urban exploration that puts its methods into practice in the surrounding city.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2024

WOODS/WALKS

Rooted in walks through Wytham Woods, England, this series WALKS part of WOODS has developed from observations and conversations, exploring creativity, connection, memory, and environmental and political change.

From Hill to Sea: Dispatches from the Fife Psychogeographical Collective, 2010 – 2014

Murdo Eason

Walk Notations

Eirini Fountedaki
Curated news New 18 Aug, 2026

Guy Debord is begging you to stop scrolling for a minute – Revista Angle

We get it: you check your phone to look for one specific thing, and twenty minutes later you’re watching an AI-generated fruit-infidelity drama on TikTok. We’ve been guilty of it too, don’t worry. Infinite scroll has emptied one of humanity’s most valued resources: attention, and everything that comes with it (curiosity, interest, patience, etc) Tired

video 2026  

The Strollology of Lucius Burckhardt: Understanding Why the Landscape is Beautiful (WALC Online Course – conversation session)

An exploration of Lucius Burckhardt's philosophy on the beauty of landscape through strollology by Simona Vermeire

WALC Course
WALC
video 2026  

WALC Cafe Walk Notations: A book as a trace

Walk Notations is a new publication (February, 2026) that brings together traces emerging from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, a series of artistic walks across Berlin in 2025, a curatorial collaboration between initiatives ReRouting and Cruising Curators for nGbK, Berlin. Moving between artistic practices, curatorial conversations, and reflections, the book approaches walking as a method for being together in

WALC
post 12 Jul, 2026

The Fifth World Congress of Psychogeography 2026 open call!

This year, we are exploring Uncharted Territory: an unfamiliar area or situation, especially one that has or seems to have no maps or guidelines. We’re looking for psychogeographers from all disciplines, and are on the hunt for: Walks, talks, presentations, workshops, performance, films/short films, games, music and sound, installation, photography, happenings, interventions, art… and, well, anything else

Happened
walkingevent  

Peripatetic pedagogical practices: Interdisciplinary walking and mobile methods in Higher Education

University of Westminster Active Travel Academy
10 Sep, 2026 · All day
University of Westminster - Cavendish Campus, New Cavendish Street, London, UK

Dr Louise Rondel will lead this one-day workshop focusing on the use of walking and other mobile methods in teaching. Full details and booking using the links below but do note that Dr Emma Jackson who has recently edited the collection  Walking: A sociological field guide will be joining as the keynote speaker.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2023

WALKS/ Rio Segura

Walking drives this work. It explores connections between people, materials and the natural world, using movement through landscape to uncover relationships, encounters and a sense of place. It is a digital book printed by blurb.com

Featured collection

performance

466 items 11 sub-collections
Happened
walkingevent  

Somatic walking arts for women in SE London

2026-07-10 09:30
Peckham Rye Park, 34 Straker's Rd, London SE15 3UA, UK

  Women who would like to explore an emerging walking arts practice are invited to participate in a  1-hour to 90-minute somatic stroll + reflection (approx. 15 mins) with walking artist Tiana Harper. 

Free
walkingevent New  

The Walking Multilogue: 24 hours of local-global walk-learning

29 - 30 Sep, 2026

Part 2 - The Walking Multilogue: 24 hours of local-global walk-learning After Learning to Walk, the incredibly enriching and inspiring first part of this Multilogue on walk-learning fashion!

Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto26 New 2026

Mnémosyne. Paris → Nafplio, 100 days on foot

One hundred days on foot, Paris to Nafplio. The heartbeat replaces the kilometre as the unit of measurement. Each day yields one sealed Cardio-Cartography. On 5 November 2026, ten minutes of restitution at the University of the Peloponnese.

Walking piece
Walking piece New 2012

El paseo de Robert Walser

El paseo de Robert Walser (Robert Walser's walk) is a site-specific walking performance based on Robert Walser’s 1917 novella The Walk.

post Featured New 02 Sep, 2026

Walking and Heritage: Embodiment, Place and Memory

From walking arts and guided tours to sacred pilgrimage, how and in what ways do walking practices speak to heritage? This is an invitation to contribute to an edited collection of critical writings and reflective documentation from practices at the intersection of embodiment, site and heritage. The collection attends to walking as a situated practice,

Mind the Fields (a companion to Mind the Gaps)

Phil Smith
post Featured New 14 Aug, 2026

What the body has come to know: a collective walking experience

This article first appeared in Anima Loci. Unfolding through the city of Guimarães, Portugal, The Walking Body is an artistic research programme that explores collective walking as a methodology for situated knowledge, creative inquiry and engagement with place. Taking place across three consecutive editions (2024–2026), the programme has generated a range of artistic outputs: from drawings to

The Walking Body 5
The Walking Body 6
The Walking Body 7
video 2026  

FOOTNOTES

FOOTNOTES is an immersive multi-media puppetry performance created, designed and directed by Theodora Skipitares with Music and Lyrics by Sxip Shirey.

video 2026  

Walking Arts & Health – Episode 2 – Walking arts across changing bodies

In this online café, we brought together four artists and practitioners working at the intersection of walking, health, and care to explore how walking is shaped by lived physical conditions. Rather than focusing on walking as an individual ability, we ask how walking becomes a practice of adaptation, resilience, negotiation, and relational care. Through artistic

WALC

Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus

Lori Waxman
walkingevent New  

Love Letters in Secret Gardens: Highland Park and East Liberty

Shiftworks Community + Public Arts; led by Carolina Loyola-Garcia
2026-09-19 14:00
Stanton Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

An artist-designed psychogeographic walk connecting love letters and secluded gardens to the social and emotional geography of East Liberty and Highland Park.

walkingevent New  

Utility Notation

Shiftworks Community + Public Arts; led by Ruby Waldo
2026-09-26 14:00
Westinghouse Park, 7051 Thomas Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15208, USA

A psychogeographic walk that treats spray-painted utility codes as an alternative navigational score, using overlooked infrastructure markings to direct movement and observation through Point Breeze.

Featured collection

listening

205 items 6 sub-collections
Sound walk
Sound walk SWS26 New 2026

Et si Biarritz était un choeur? (What If Biarritz Were A Chorus?)

I walk to encounter the city, to fill myself with it: my Biarritz, theirs. Could what I am looking for lie in the very movement of walking? The movement of my body, of the city, of water, and the movements that pass through us?

Sound walk
Sound walk New 2020

SLEEPERTOWN | A Mobile Public Art Programme

SLEEPERTOWN | A Mobile Public Art Programme

video New 2026  

Listening – Kit Dobson in conversation with Ken Wilson

For our first Walking Writers Salon after the summer break, and to open Sound Walk September 2026, Canadian writers and researchers Kit Dobson and Ken Wilson were in conversation discussing Kit’s Field Notes on Listening. Many of us walk out with scant attention to what we hear, our brains filtering out much, and for an

Field Notes on Listening

Kit Dobson
post New 07 Sep, 2026

Sound Artists Residence in Catalunya

Facing the contemporary environmental crisis, this project was born from the need to rethink nature and re-conceptualise technology as an open-source tool for communities.

post Featured New 03 Sep, 2026

What Walking Art Notices

An attempt at characterising 76 works in the WLC archive suggests that walking art makes urban conditions perceptible in ways that conventional walkability measures rarely do. Through altered routes, sensory attention, collective movement and counter-mapping, these pieces expose the histories, power relations, ecological conditions and embodied constraints that shape how space can be inhabited.

walkingevent New  

Wellbeing Walks: River Resonances

Wellbeing Walks, with artist Treva Legassie
2026-09-24 22:00
Lassonde Art Trail, 39 Commissioners St, Toronto, ON M5A 1A6, Canada

A collective soundwalk using site-specific listening scores to explore the acoustic environment and layered transformation of the Don River mouth from wetland through industrial wasteland to revitalized urban park.

walkingevent New  

(Un)heard Neighbors

mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna; Isabel Frey, Ioannis Christidis and Jana Haab
2026-09-19 13:30
Fünfhaus, Wien, Austria

A participatory urban soundwalk exploring how religious sound and silence shape the social and acoustic territory of Vienna's Fünfhaus district.

Listening as a Shared and Social Practice

Lindsey French
video 2025  

Migrating Voices, a polyphonic, immersive, connected device.

Migrating Voices (work in progress) , a polyphonic, immersive, connected device by Gigacircus art collective in the conext of the EU project WALC. Visit https://gigacircus.net/walc for more information.

WALC
Sound walk
Sound walk SWS26 2025

Electric Tide

A collective listening journey to an abandoned telegraph cable house where blindfolded listening, underwater recordings, electromagnetic ghosts, and collective ritual invite participants to tune into the currents linking bodies, water, and technology

Free
walkingevent New  

Listening at the Edges

08:45
2026-09-17 06:00
St-Engelbertusstraat 22, 9130 Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

It’s the same sky, here or there. A slow walk through border country exploring listening, pauses and non-verbal responses such as humming. Inspired by Calvino's Invisible Cities, we seek new meanings through sound in fractured landscapes.

Made of Walking Prosperpolder
WALC
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