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Aberdeen Art Gallery

Aberdeen Art Gallery is a local Authority Museum. Look for it within Aberdeen’s locality. Its status is a category A listed building.

Photo: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Tom Parnell from Scottish Borders, Scotland (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Where

In Aberdeen

inside the locality

How well known

Top 10%

#792 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jul–Aug

highs of 18–18°C

In brief

Museum in Aberdeen

One of the best-known places to visit in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

#792 of the 8,556 museums, castles, gardens and other attractions we list, by how widely it is covered (9 Wikipedias). About ↓

Inside Aberdeen

Aberdeen Art Gallery is inside Aberdeen’s locality, with 17 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Category A listed building

On the official list of protected heritage; Aberdeen has 1,086 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NRS’s localities and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Month by month in Aberdeen

Expect 18°C highs in Aberdeen in July and August.

Jan7° / 1°69 mm

Feb7° / 1°65 mm

Mar9° / 2°54 mm

Apr11° / 4°58 mm

May13° / 6°53 mm

Jun16° / 9°67 mm

Jul18° / 11°74 mm

Aug18° / 11°72 mm

Sep16° / 9°60 mm

Oct12° / 6°99 mm

Nov9° / 3°91 mm

Dec7° / 1°77 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Aberdeen, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Aberdeen. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Aberdeen’s full climate →

About

Aberdeen Art Gallery

Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 9 languages. Top of the 21 other places within 15 km is St Mary's Cathedral, 400 m off.

Aberdeen’s listed buildings and monuments →

Type: Museum
Listed: Category A listed building
Wikipedias: Covered in 9 languages
Town: in Aberdeen
Official site: aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/plan-your-visit/aberdeen-art-gallery

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

Plan your visit

When it is open

Entrance feesFreeNo entrance fee.

Hours and entry: OpenStreetMap contributors. They change through the year: check its site before you go.

The map

The area around Aberdeen Art Gallery

Orange is Aberdeen Art Gallery; numbered in green, the places near it.

Towns near it

Towns around Aberdeen Art Gallery, by distance

The 8 towns are led in size by Aberdeen, with 192,968 people. From nearest to farthest, these towns all list it.

1 · It’s in town

Aberdeen

192,968 people · 21 places to visit

2 · 4.4 km south of it

Cove Bay

7,926 people · 12 places to visit

3 · 7.2 km west of it

Kingswells

4,776 people · 4 places to visit

4 · 7.9 km northwest of it

Dyce

6,998 people · 4 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Aberdeen Art Gallery is	People	Places to visit
Aberdeen	It’s in town	192,968	21
Cove Bay	4.4 km south of it	7,926	12
Kingswells	7.2 km west of it	4,776	4
Dyce	7.9 km northwest of it	6,998	4
Milltimber	8.9 km southwest of it	3,049	6
Portlethen	9.7 km south of it	8,965	3
Peterculter	11 km southwest of it	4,359	5
Westhill	12 km west of it	11,778	1

Make a day of it

Next door to Aberdeen Art Gallery

Also close at hand are 3 cathedrals, 3 museums and a castle, among 21 within 15 km.

CathedralSt Mary's Cathedral400 m away 2

CathedralSt Andrew's Cathedral600 m away 3

CathedralSt Machar's Cathedral2.4 km away 4

CastleAberdeen Castle800 m away 5

MuseumAberdeen Maritime Museum500 m away 6

MuseumTolbooth Museum500 m away 7

GardenCruickshank Botanic Garden2.2 km away 8

MuseumProvost Skene's House300 m away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

A visit to Aberdeen Art Gallery: questions

Where is Aberdeen Art Gallery?

Aberdeen Art Gallery is in Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, inside the town’s locality.

What is Aberdeen Art Gallery?

Local Authority Museum in Scotland, United Kingdom.

When is the best time to visit Aberdeen Art Gallery?

July and August are the warmest months in Aberdeen, with afternoon highs of 18–18°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

Is Aberdeen Art Gallery a listed building?

Yes: category A listed building.

What else is there to see near Aberdeen Art Gallery?

Within 15 km: St Mary's Cathedral (400 m), St Andrew's Cathedral (600 m), St Machar's Cathedral (2.4 km) and Aberdeen Castle (800 m).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the NRS 2022 locality (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Aberdeen Art Gallery: Tom Parnell from Scottish Borders, Scotland, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Mary's Cathedral: Lucas Kendall, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Andrew's Cathedral: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Machar's Cathedral: PaulT (Gunther Tschuch), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Aberdeen Castle: Anthony Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Aberdeen Maritime Museum: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tolbooth Museum: Ragazzi99, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Cruickshank Botanic Garden: PMJ at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Provost Skene's House: Ryan Mitchell, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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