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Brent Museum

Brent Museum is a museum and archive. Its location is inside Brent’s built-up area. Add British Museum, 7.7 km away, to a visit; it leads 571 places within 15 km.

Where

In Brent

inside the built-up area

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–23°C

In brief

Museum in Brent

Inside Brent

Brent Museum is inside Brent’s built-up area, with 27 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

Seasons in Brent

Aim for May to September, when Brent reaches 18–23°C.

Jan8° / 3°65 mm

Feb9° / 3°49 mm

Mar12° / 4°41 mm

Apr15° / 6°45 mm

May18° / 9°48 mm

Jun21° / 12°53 mm

Jul23° / 14°50 mm

Aug23° / 14°58 mm

Sep20° / 11°54 mm

Oct16° / 8°73 mm

Nov11° / 5°72 mm

Dec9° / 3°63 mm

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

About

Brent Museum

Museum and archive in United Kingdom.

In Brent, inside the town’s built-up area.

Type: Museum
Town: in Brent
Official site: brent.gov.uk/libraries-arts-and-heritage/brent-museum-and-archives

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

Plan your visit

The practical side

Entrance feesFreeNo entrance fee.

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

The map

Where to find Brent Museum

Numbered points are the places near Brent Museum, which is in orange.

Towns near it

Towns within reach of Brent Museum

Among the 7, Barnet is the biggest, home to 388,572 people. Each of these towns lists it on its own page of things to do.

1 · It’s in town

Brent

340,611 people · 245 places to visit

2 · 1.4 km north of it

Barnet

388,572 people · 102 places to visit

3 · 1.4 km east of it

Camden

209,342 people · 458 places to visit

4 · 1.6 km south of it

Hammersmith and Fulham

182,187 people · 266 places to visit

Compare the 7 towns

Town	Where Brent Museum is	People	Places to visit
Brent	It’s in town	340,611	245
Barnet	1.4 km north of it	388,572	102
Camden	1.4 km east of it	209,342	458
Hammersmith and Fulham	1.6 km south of it	182,187	266
Westminster	2 km southeast of it	203,571	461
Ealing	2 km southwest of it	367,271	101
Kensington and Chelsea	2.2 km southeast of it	143,348	399

Make a day of it

Nearby, too

Also close at hand are 3 museums, 2 historic houses and a cathedral, among 571 within 15 km.

Big drawMuseumBritish Museum7.7 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)2

Historic houseBuckingham Palace7.9 km away 3

Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey8.8 km away 4

MuseumMadame Tussauds5.8 km away 5

AttractionElizabeth Tower8.9 km away 6

Historic houseKensington Palace5.4 km away · 383K visitors a year (2015)7

Big drawArt galleryNational Gallery8.1 km away · 709K visitors a year (2021)8

Big drawMuseumVictoria and Albert Museum6.8 km away · 858K visitors a year (2021)

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

Brent Museum, answered

Where is Brent Museum?

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

What is Brent Museum?

Museum and archive in United Kingdom.

When is the best time to visit Brent Museum?

May to September are the warmest months in Brent, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Brent Museum?

Within 15 km: British Museum (7.7 km), Buckingham Palace (7.9 km), Westminster Abbey (8.8 km) and Madame Tussauds (5.8 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 (8)

British Museum: Ham, 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
Madame Tussauds: Citizen59, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Kensington Palace: Steve Cadman from London, U.K., CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
National Gallery: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Victoria and Albert Museum: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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