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Aberdeen Maritime Museum

Aberdeen Maritime Museum is a local Authority Museum. Its place is inside Aberdeen’s locality. It is managed by Aberdeen City Council.

Photo: Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Richard Slessor (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Where

In Aberdeen

inside the locality

Run by

Aberdeen City Council

the operator on record

How well known

Top 16%

#1,300 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jul–Aug

highs of 18–18°C

In brief

Museum in Aberdeen

Inside Aberdeen

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

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

When to go

Choosing a month

For warmth in Aberdeen, choose July and August (18°C).

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 Maritime Museum

Articles on it exist in 6 languages. Our list has 21 more places within 15 km; first among them is St Mary's Cathedral, at 700 m.

Type: Museum
Run by: Aberdeen City Council
Wikipedias: Covered in 6 languages
Town: in Aberdeen
Official site: aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/plan-your-visit/aberdeen-maritime-museum

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

Plan your visit

Before you set off

Entrance feesFreeNo entrance fee.

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

The map

Finding Aberdeen Maritime Museum

Aberdeen Maritime Museum is in orange, with the places near it numbered as below.

Towns near it

Which towns are near Aberdeen Maritime Museum

Of these 8 towns, the largest is Aberdeen (192,968 people). The town it is in comes first, then the others whose pages list it, nearest first.

1 · It’s in town

Aberdeen

192,968 people · 21 places to visit

2 · 4.2 km south of it

Cove Bay

7,926 people · 12 places to visit

3 · 7.7 km west of it

Kingswells

4,776 people · 4 places to visit

4 · 8.3 km northwest of it

Dyce

6,998 people · 4 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Aberdeen Maritime Museum is	People	Places to visit
Aberdeen	It’s in town	192,968	21
Cove Bay	4.2 km south of it	7,926	12
Kingswells	7.7 km west of it	4,776	4
Dyce	8.3 km northwest of it	6,998	4
Milltimber	9.3 km southwest of it	3,049	6
Portlethen	9.7 km south of it	8,965	3
Peterculter	12 km southwest of it	4,359	5
Newtonhill	13 km south of it	3,182	1

Make a day of it

Close to Aberdeen Maritime Museum

There are 21 within 15 km, 3 cathedrals, 3 museums and a castle among them.

CathedralSt Mary's Cathedral700 m away 2

CathedralSt Andrew's Cathedral300 m away 3

MuseumAberdeen Art Gallery500 m away 4

CathedralSt Machar's Cathedral2.6 km away 5

CastleAberdeen Castle400 m away 6

MuseumTolbooth Museum200 m away 7

Theme parkCodona's Amusement Park1.1 km away 8

MuseumProvost Skene's House200 m away

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

A visit to Aberdeen Maritime Museum: questions

Where is Aberdeen Maritime Museum?

Aberdeen Maritime Museum is in Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, inside the town’s locality.

What is Aberdeen Maritime Museum?

Local Authority Museum in Scotland, United Kingdom.

Who runs Aberdeen Maritime Museum?

Aberdeen City Council.

When is the best time to visit Aberdeen Maritime Museum?

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

What else is there to see near Aberdeen Maritime Museum?

Within 15 km: St Mary's Cathedral (700 m), St Andrew's Cathedral (300 m), Aberdeen Art Gallery (500 m) and St Machar's Cathedral (2.6 km).

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 Maritime Museum: Richard Slessor, 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
Aberdeen Art Gallery: Tom Parnell from Scottish Borders, Scotland, 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
Tolbooth Museum: Ragazzi99, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Codona's Amusement Park: Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Provost Skene's House: Ryan Mitchell, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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