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Arsenal Museum

Arsenal Museum is a sports museum. It lies inside the built-up area of Islington. Each year, some 120K people come.

Photo: Arsenal Museum, Gael13011 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Where

In Islington

inside the built-up area

Visitors a year

120K

Wikidata

How well known

Top 5%

#366 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 19–24°C

In brief

Museum in Islington

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

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

Inside Islington

Arsenal Museum is inside Islington’s built-up area, with 167 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Warm months and wet ones

If warmth matters, go May to September: Islington reaches 19–24°C.

Jan9° / 3°60 mm

Feb9° / 3°43 mm

Mar12° / 5°36 mm

Apr15° / 6°42 mm

May19° / 9°45 mm

Jun21° / 12°53 mm

Jul24° / 14°46 mm

Aug23° / 14°56 mm

Sep20° / 12°50 mm

Oct16° / 9°65 mm

Nov12° / 6°64 mm

Dec9° / 3°57 mm

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

About

Arsenal Museum

8 Wikipedia editions have an article on it. Top of the 580 other places within 15 km is British Museum, 4.3 km off.

Type: Museum
Visitors: 120K visitors a year
Wikipedias: Covered in 8 languages
Town: in Islington
Official site: arsenal.com/history/the-arsenal-museum

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

Plan your visit

Entry, hours, address

Entrance fees

EntryA fee is charged

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

The map

Locating Arsenal Museum

The numbers show what else is near Arsenal Museum, in the order listed below.

Towns near it

Staying near Arsenal Museum

Among the 8, Tower Hamlets is the biggest, home to 311,072 people. Its home town tops the list; the rest follow by distance.

1 · It’s in town

Islington

216,309 people · 425 places to visit

2 · 800 m north of it

Haringey

264,069 people · 149 places to visit

3 · 800 m east of it

Hackney

258,464 people · 407 places to visit

4 · 1.6 km southwest of it

Camden

209,342 people · 458 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Arsenal Museum is	People	Places to visit
Islington	It’s in town	216,309	425
Haringey	800 m north of it	264,069	149
Hackney	800 m east of it	258,464	407
Camden	1.6 km southwest of it	209,342	458
Tower Hamlets	2.7 km southeast of it	311,072	430
Westminster	3.8 km southwest of it	203,571	461
City of London	3.8 km south of it	7,820	432
Waltham Forest	4.4 km northeast of it	278,129	73

Make a day of it

Pair Arsenal Museum with these

Also close at hand are 2 cathedrals, 2 attractions and a museum, among 580 within 15 km.

Big drawMuseumBritish Museum4.3 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)2

Big drawCastleTower of London5.8 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)3

Historic houseBuckingham Palace6.6 km away 4

Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey6.5 km away 5

AttractionElizabeth Tower6.3 km away 6

CathedralSt Paul's Cathedral4.8 km away 7

Big drawArt galleryNational Gallery5.5 km away · 709K visitors a year (2021)8

AttractionLondon Eye6 km away

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

Planning a visit to Arsenal Museum

Where is Arsenal Museum?

Arsenal Museum is in Islington, London, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Arsenal Museum?

Sports museum in London.

How many people visit Arsenal Museum?

About 120K visitors a year.

When is the best time to visit Arsenal Museum?

May to September are the warmest months in Islington, with afternoon highs of 19–24°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Arsenal Museum?

Within 15 km: British Museum (4.3 km), Tower of London (5.8 km), Buckingham Palace (6.6 km) and Westminster Abbey (6.5 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (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)

Arsenal Museum: Gael13011, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Paul's Cathedral: Mark Fosh, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
National Gallery: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
London Eye: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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