The PMSA was founded in 1991 with a mission to celebrate, protect and promote our public monuments and sculptures.

In cities, towns, and villages across the country, there is a treasure trove of monuments and sculptures reflecting our rich and diverse cultural history. We’re here to make sure it stays that way.

Over the past three decades PMSA has initiated a number of high-profile projects, including the National Recording Project (cataloguing all public sculpture in the UK); the academic publication the Sculpture Journal, Save Our Sculpture and Forth Plinth campaigns and the Marsh Award for excellence in public sculpture, which was rebranded as the 3rd Dimension Awards in 2019. The organisation also commissioned extensive provenance research covering the length and breadth of the country resulting in twenty-two regional volumes of the Public Sculpture of Britain series of books, published in partnership with Liverpool University Press.