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Glasgow Museums Resource Centre

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre is a museum resource centre near Glasgow. Around it, within 15 km, lie 86 more places, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (7.9 km) first on our list. 2 Wikipedia editions have an article on it.

Photo: Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Lairich Rig (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Where

In Glasgow

inside the locality

How well known

Top 49%

#4,147 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Aug

highs of 18–19°C

In brief

Museum in Glasgow

Inside Glasgow

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre is inside Glasgow’s locality, with 10 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

Weather, month by month

Warm weather in Glasgow runs June to August, with highs of 18–19°C.

Jan7° / 2°121 mm

Feb8° / 2°99 mm

Mar10° / 3°85 mm

Apr12° / 5°62 mm

May16° / 7°67 mm

Jun18° / 10°69 mm

Jul19° / 12°84 mm

Aug19° / 11°91 mm

Sep17° / 9°89 mm

Oct13° / 7°121 mm

Nov9° / 4°114 mm

Dec7° / 2°128 mm

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

About

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre

Museum resource centre near Glasgow, United Kingdom.

In Glasgow, inside the town’s locality.

Type: Museum
Wikipedias: Covered in 2 languages
Town: in Glasgow
Official site: glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/glasgow-museums-resource-centre-gmrc

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

The map

Where to find Glasgow Museums Resource Centre

On this map, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre is orange and its neighbours are numbered.

Towns near it

The nearest towns

By population, Glasgow leads the 8 with 617,904. Its own town leads; the rest list it too, closest first.

1 · It’s in town

Glasgow

617,904 people · 101 places to visit

2 · 100 m southwest of it

Barrhead

17,608 people · 15 places to visit

3 · 2.1 km northwest of it

Paisley

79,351 people · 27 places to visit

4 · 2.5 km east of it

Thornliebank

4,084 people · 20 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Glasgow Museums Resource Centre is	People	Places to visit
Glasgow	It’s in town	617,904	101
Barrhead	100 m southwest of it	17,608	15
Paisley	2.1 km northwest of it	79,351	27
Thornliebank	2.5 km east of it	4,084	20
Newton Mearns	2.9 km southeast of it	28,447	17
Giffnock	3.6 km east of it	11,963	25
Neilston	4 km southwest of it	5,459	4
Clarkston	4.3 km southeast of it	9,486	19

Make a day of it

Make a day of it near Glasgow Museums Resource Centre

There are 86 within 15 km, 3 museums, 2 cathedrals and a castle among them.

Big drawMuseumKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum7.9 km away · 1M visitors a year 2

Big drawMuseumRiverside Museum7 km away · 1.1M visitors a year (2015)3

MuseumGlasgow School of Art8.8 km away 4

CathedralGlasgow Cathedral10 km away 5

Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandCrookston Castle2.7 km away 6

Big drawArt galleryGallery of Modern Art8.9 km away · 596K visitors a year 7

Historic house · National Trust for ScotlandPollok House3.5 km away 8

CathedralSt Mirin's Cathedral5.1 km away

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

What people ask about Glasgow Museums Resource Centre

Where is Glasgow Museums Resource Centre?

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre is in Glasgow, Glasgow City, inside the town’s locality.

What is Glasgow Museums Resource Centre?

Museum resource centre near Glasgow, United Kingdom.

When is the best time to visit Glasgow Museums Resource Centre?

June to August are the warmest months in Glasgow, with afternoon highs of 18–19°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Glasgow Museums Resource Centre?

Within 15 km: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (7.9 km), Riverside Museum (7 km), Glasgow School of Art (8.8 km) and Glasgow Cathedral (10 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)

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre: Lairich Rig, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Riverside Museum: Cutkiller2018, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Glasgow School of Art: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Glasgow Cathedral: Bewahrerderwerte, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Crookston Castle: Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Gallery of Modern Art: BrainiacBlink, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Pollok House: LornaMCampbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
St Mirin's Cathedral: JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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